President Trump’s new Qatari 747-8 has entered service as Air Force One, but a sudden switch back to the older presidential 747 after the NATO summit in Turkey has raised fresh questions about safety, transparency, and now press freedom.
But on the return journey, Trump did not fly the new aircraft out of Turkey.
Instead, he boarded one of the older VC-25A Boeing 747-200B aircraft that has long served as Air Force One (dating back to the first Bush administration). The official explanation from Trump was that he wanted to give American troops at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom a chance to see the new red, white, and blue aircraft.
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