The flight originated at what was then McChord Air Force Base, now part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The plane, en route to Alaska, mysteriously crashed.

Lawmakers could tack an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act that would block ... bill to block the use of a foreign aircraft for Air Force One, framing Trump’s plan ...

Truman and its strike group launched the “largest airstrike in the history of the world” from an aircraft carrier ... James Kilby, the acting chief of naval operations, said while speaking ...

and ensure that a foreign-owned plane never gets the call sign ‘Air Force One.’” The legislation, titled the Presidential Airlift Security Act, marks the latest attempt by Democrats to take ...

which will be retrofitted with state-of-the-art security and communications to serve as Air Force One. Qatari officials said the plane was being given by the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the ...

Darlene Costello, the Air Force’s acting assistant secretary for acquisition ... multi-hundred-million-dollar “palace in the sky” aircraft, which Trump said in a social media post Sunday ...

“We’re very disappointed that it’s taking Boeing so long to build a new Air Force One,” Trump told reporters at the White House — noting that the current presidential aircraft is 40 ...

“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent ...

Rod Lamkey/AP The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify ... gift is not conditioned on any official act, it does not constitute bribery, the sources ...

News of the potential 2027 delivery came Wednesday from Darlene Costello, the Air Force’s acting acquisitions chief ... workers performing work on the aircraft, which has been blamed for ...

Currently, a thirty-five-year-old duo of modified Boeing 747-200s (or VC-25A) make up Air Force One. Boeing failed to meet its original Dec. 2024 deadline for the first aircraft due to delays ...