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The US Air Force is for now abandoning the idea of building new aircraft to become Air Force One from scratch due to concerns over costs, cnn.com reports.
Instead they are considering reconfiguring a pair of jumbo Boeing 747-8 planes originally built for a defunct Russian airline that went bankrupt in 2015, according to a US official and another source close to the discussions.
The Russian airline never received the planes, according to two people familiar with the jets. They were flight tested but never delivered and instead the planes sat in storage. The source says at this point the "US Air Force believes it may be cheaper to convert these existing planes than build new ones."
For more, including a cnn video: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/01/politics/us-air-force-one-bankrupt-russian-airline/index.html
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Instead they are considering reconfiguring a pair of jumbo Boeing 747-8 planes originally built for a defunct Russian airline that went bankrupt in 2015, according to a US official and another source close to the discussions.
The Russian airline never received the planes, according to two people familiar with the jets. They were flight tested but never delivered and instead the planes sat in storage. The source says at this point the "US Air Force believes it may be cheaper to convert these existing planes than build new ones."
For more, including a cnn video: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/01/politics/us-air-force-one-bankrupt-russian-airline/index.html
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