Trump plane from Quatar

[Yrys]

N. Y. Times free article (at the moment, mai 20)
Trump air force one from Quatar

The Inside Story of Trump’s Search for a New Air Force One​

The Boeing 747-8 from Qatar at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida after President Trump took a tour of the plane in February.

(Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times)

Qatar had been trying to sell off a luxury jet for years, with no luck. Then President Trump’s team set its sights on it.


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by Eric LiptonMaggie HabermanAdam Rasgon and Eric Schmitt

(Eric Lipton and Eric Schmitt reported from Washington, Maggie Haberman from New York and Adam Rasgon from Jerusalem.)

President Trump wanted a quick solution to his Air Force One problem. The United States signed a 3.9 billion contract (bottom) with Boeing in 2018 for two jets to be used as Air Force One, but a series of delays had slowed the work far past the 2024 delivery deadline, possibly beyond Mr. Trump’s second term.

Now Mr. Trump had to fly around in the same old planes that transported President George H.W. Bush 35 years ago. It wasn’t just a vanity project. Those planes, which are no longer in production, require extensive servicing and frequent repairs, and officials from both parties, reaching back a decade or more, had been pressing for replacements.


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Article of July 2018 :

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1579091/air-force-formalizes-air-force-one-replacement-deal-with-contract-to-boeing/

Air Force formalizes Air Force One replacement deal with contract to Boeing
By Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to The Boeing Company to design, modify, test, certify and deliver two presidential, mission-ready aircraft by 2024.

This contract action formalizes President Trump’s agreement reached with Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president, and CEO, Feb. 20, 2018. This sets $3.9 billion as the price for the two completed Air Force One replacement aircraft, saving the taxpayers over $1.4 billion.

This contract modification is firm fixed-price and contains over-and-above provisions to address both presidential quality items, or additional test effort induced by the government above the planned program baseline.

The Air Force looks forward to partnering with Boeing on the VC-25B program to deliver the next Air Force One fleet by 2024.

Air Force One replacement deal Boeing contract President Trump mission-ready Aircraft SecAF SAF VC-25B

 

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[Yrys]

In English, that plane has an estimated of 150/180 million$. In a French article it's 400 million$.

I wonder if it's Euros ?

Le chef des démocrates s'oppose à l'avion du Quatar

 

[FJAG]

This contract action formalizes President Trump’s agreement reached with Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president, and CEO, Feb. 20, 2018. This sets $3.9 billion as the price for the two completed Air Force One replacement aircraft, saving the taxpayers over $1.4 billion.

This contract modification is firm fixed-price and contains over-and-above provisions to address both presidential quality items, or additional test effort induced by the government above the planned program baseline.

That's always a good strategy for keeping a project on schedule.

 

[lenaitch]

I suspect he will be out of office by the time this thing has been stripped to the ribs and rebuilt.

(Or maybe not, bwa-ha-ha).