Eleven bathrooms, five kitchens, 40 televisions and golden finishes: the interiors of the new Air Force One donated to Trump. The plane is already in the USA
The plane, which will come from Qatar and after 2028 will remain to the president, was set up by a Swiss company. Now the work of setting up the communication and security systems
It is a real Trump Tower in the sky: master bedroom, one for guests, Eleven bathrooms, five kitchens, private office. And again: five lounges, live TV and internet connection, golden finishes, 40 televisions, Precious wood panels which also cover the steps of the internal staircase that connects the two « plans » of the plane. And, instead of the 460 seats foreseen in the commercial configuration, only five files of business seats. On board there is room for 90 passengers and 14 crew members.
To set up this jewel, a Swiss company took two years. Now The Boeing 747-8 that the Qatar royal family is about to donate to Donald Trump It must be subjected to a new intervention to equip it with the communication and security systems necessary to transport the President of the United States. Trump has already had the opportunity to see this jewel of aviation in person (and imagines). He will use it as an presidential plane until the end of his mandatethen it will move on to Trump Presidential Library Foundation (by 1 January 2029) and in fact it will become part of the his personal fleet.
Trump hoped to be able to inaugurate the new Boeing model of the Air Force One, which would have replaced the two in use since the early nineties. But a series of delays and increases in costs compared to the initial project (which dates back to 2018, and which estimated the wait in 6 years and the budget in 3.9 billion dollars) is likely to slip the completion of the construction to after 2028, the last year of the president to the White House.
The work of setting up the Jet donated by the Qatari Real Family has already been entrusted to L3harris, the sixth greater contractor of the Pentagon. Once completed, the 747-8 will be the longest Air Force One (76 meters), faster (1,045 km/h) and that most autonomy (14,300 km).
The plane is already in Texas
The Boeing 747-8 that Qatar gave Donald Trump has been located for five weeks in a hangar at San Antonio’s international airport, in Texas.
The plane He arrived in Texas on April 3rdafter starting from Doha on March 30, having made a stop in Charles de Gaulle in Paris and then another at Bangor, Maine, April 2, according to the spokesperson for Flightradar 24.
