Marcus Weisgerber
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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The previous plane is very utilitarian, is the way the general who's overseeing the whole project described it to me.
The Qatari plane, the new current Air Force One, is a lot more luxurious.
The Air Force did not do a lot to change the interior of this plane, with the exception of a few changes.
you know, pictures, presidential seals and such, instead of, you know, contemporary artwork and exit signs that were in Arabic previously.
Swapped them out with some English language exit signs.
And the number one priority was to make sure the plane was safe and to make sure the president has the ability to communicate.
They put in a communications system that the president needs to be able to conduct business as if he was at the White House and be able to do secure video and voice calls and also be able to, say, transmit the nuclear codes if there's a nuclear war on hand.
So much of what is involved in Air Force One are classified.
You ask them how they did it and they will not give you specific answers.
They will just say stuff like what capabilities of the U.S.
government brings to bear has been used to actually check this thing.
And as a program manager from L3 Harris Technologies, who did the modification, told me a few weeks ago, he's like, I hate to say just like, trust me, but, you know, trust me.
No, it definitely is.
You know, you're still seeing this debate over what happens to the plane when the president leaves office.
He's expressed his desire to have an Air Force One in his presidential library in Miami.
This plane, though, as the military has told me, it'll be around for as long as it's needed.
We've seen a lawmaker, Joe Courtney from Connecticut, introduce an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
to try to actually block Trump from using it as a private jet after he leaves office.
One key thing to keep in mind is that the ownership of the plane is by the Air Force.
And after it goes out of service, the National Museum of the U.S.
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