WASHINGTON (AP) – President Biden’s administration has removed former President Trump’s red, white and blue designs for the new generation of presidential planes after a BBC review suggested it would increase costs and delay the delivery of new planes.
Boeing is currently modifying two Boeing 747-800 aircraft, which will carry the call sign Air Force One when the president is on board, to replace the existing fleet of two obsolete Boeing 747-200 aircraft. Trump, in 2018, ordered the new jumbo jets to remove the iconic blue-and-white design of Robin from the Kennedy era for a darker blue and dark red stripe.
Trump’s painting scheme is not being considered because it could lead to additional engineering, time and costs, according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the program.
Politico first announced that an Air Force study of the new paint concluded that the dark shade of blue proposed by Trump for the lower part of the plane and the engines would create problems with the plane’s heating, requiring expensive modifications and additional delays. on the schedule. program. The current generation of aircraft first transports President George W. Bush.
When he was in office, Trump held a mock-up of the new presidential plane in the new color scheme of a coffee table in the Oval Office.
“Baby blue doesn’t suit us,” he told Fox News in 2019, after previously revealing sketches of his ideal redesign for the plane’s exterior.
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Trump’s design uses the colors of the American flag. The upper half of the plane will be white, while the dark blue will cover the lower half, including the abdomen. A thick red stripe would extend from the cockpit to the tail in the middle, almost identical to the color scheme of Trump’s personal plane, except that white and blue were inverted.
The administration has not officially unveiled a new design for the replacement aircraft, which is currently housed at Boeing’s San Antonio plant and is undergoing significant modifications to prepare them for transport to the president. They currently have plain white and blue paint marked by the US Air Force while work continues.
Officially known as the VC-25B, the new aircraft is expected to replace the older VC-25A aircraft in 2026, years behind schedule.
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