Pentagon accepts Qatari aircraft to be next Air Force One

Published May 21, 2025 2:04pm ET



The Department of Defense accepted a Qatari-owned Boeing 747 aircraft as a gift that the U.S. military will modify to be the next Air Force One.

Now that the United States has accepted the gift, it will be up to the Pentagon to transform the aircraft into one retrofitted with all of the security and mission-critical measures that aircraft transporting the president must have.

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