[Billthedrill]

Never mind the fact that Trump might never get to fly in one of the two new Air Force One aircraft, which are expected to enter service some time between 2018 and 2022.

Why, not at all! That should be halfway through his second term at the latest.

[Fiddlstix]

AH! The difference between having a "career businessman" as the President instead of some "career petty politician".
GO TRUMP GO!

[Dagnabitt]

Trump Flies on Russian Airplane!

- CNN

[Enchante]

Oh, he will definitely be there to fly in them, heh heh.

[WashingtonFire]

I’m still not tired of all this winning Mr President !

Keep it up Sir !

[Cobra64]

It’s amusing watching this jibber-jabber about saving money on a couple of Presidential military jets when we spend this much money on supplying illegal aliens with toilet paper.

[RegulatorCountry]

Maybe the new ones won’t be bugged by the self-appointed deep state shadow government.

[FreedomPoster]

>>The irony of the fact that the comes from a backdoor Russian source while the Trump’s administration is under investigation for colluding with Russia will be lost on no one.

Oh jeez, did this guy have to throw that nonsense in there? Give me a break.

[BobL]

This is TOTALLY TRUMP. They need new planes because the impact to upgrading the existing planes would be extremely costly (taking them out of service for extended times).

So take two green-tails (as we call them ‘in the business’) and work on getting them up to AF-1 standards, without interrupting the existing AF-1’s. No need for new airframes (regardless of whether they would look cool, just low mileage is good enough!

The cost here is next to nothing...compared with new airframes, at least.

[ExNewsExSpook]

The fact they’re “used” airframes with minimal hours makes the deal even better. Unfortunately, the military has gotten burned on these deals in the past, often because they insisted on Boeing 707 airframes for maintenance and logistics commonality.

I had a friend who was among the initial cadre of JSTARS. Those airframes were aged when they were acquired almost 30 years ago, and the Air Force went way over budget getting them into tip-top shape. I heard some of the flights from their “source” to Lake Charles, LA (where the aircraft were re-habbed) were quite an adventure, due to their poor condition.

[Boomer]

I do wonder if it’s cheaper to buy them like this to retrofit or have them built originally to spec. I’m sure some bean counter somewhere knows for sure.

[tophat9000]

I just did some it work for a company that does the fitting out of jet airliners as private jets

The cost of the new work and rework inside is sometimes more expensive than the jet itself

Think of it as an RV or a yacht

a jet airliner is just basically a big empty bus just like an RV that’s not fitted with anything

but once you fit it out that’s where all the expense

but to buy these two aircrafts you’re going to save on the basic airframe tremendously