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ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD (AP) \u2014 <\/b>President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft.<\/p>\n

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The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin\u2019s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder look, with the underbelly of the plane painted navy blue with a red stripe above it. The plane\u2019s left side, where the president boards, features the presidential seal, while the tail of the aircraft has a massive American flag on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before,\u201d Trump said from inside the massive Andrews Air Force Base hangar, as a couple hundred assembled Air Force personnel looked on. He spoke after stepping off the new plane in a dramatic flourish, as his signature tune \u201cGod Bless the USA\u201d played.<\/p>\n

He confirmed that he would be taking the new jet to the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, next month and indicated he would be returning to China \u201cat some point,\u201d presumably a reference to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that China is hosting in November. His return from the Group of 7 summit in France this week was the last planned trip aboard the old Air Force One, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, when we land at airports in London and in Germany and different places, nobody tops this one, and that\u2019s the way we have to have it for our country,\u201d Trump said, noting that the colors and the design were to \u201cmy taste, I will say.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the new Air Force One will do a flyover during the July 4 celebrations next month.<\/p>\n

The gift from Qatar is serving as a so-called \u201cbridge\u201d aircraft to carry the president until the new planes ordered directly from Boeing arrive. That is currently slated for 2028.<\/p>\n

The administration formally accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar last year to be used as the presidential airplane, despite questions about the ethics and legality of accepting such an expensive gift from a foreign government. Trump has insisted in the past that he would not fly around in the Qatari jet once he leaves office and said it would instead be donated to a future presidential library.<\/p>\n

Trump on Friday said the U.S. was in a \u201clittle bit of a logjam\u201d as they awaited the delivery of the new jets directly from Boeing, which had originally been scheduled for 2024 but have been delayed. He recalled asking the emir of Qatar for use of one of their planes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee, a normal president wouldn\u2019t do this. A normal president wants to stay away from aircraft,\u201d Trump said Friday. \u201cBut our country has to be represented properly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Air Force said in a news release Friday that any plane deemed Air Force One \u201cmust meet rigorous security requirements\u201d and that the Qatari plane \u201cwas modified under a disciplined engineering approach that prioritized these exact core capabilities above all else.\u201d The Air Force also said \u201cmuch of the previous head of state interior layout\u201d of the plane was kept intact.<\/p>\n

The Air Force has said in the past that security modifications to the jet would cost less than $400 million.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s efforts to reimagine the presidential airplane date back to his first administration, when he directed that an incoming fleet of new jets would adopt a color scheme that was nearly identical to that of his personal airplane. Then-President Joe Biden reversed the decision in March 2023 as an Air Force review suggested that the darker colors could increase costs and delay delivery of the new jets, but once Trump returned to office, he returned to his desired colors for the plane.<\/p>\n

Other government jets that carry other top administration officials will also use the similar red, white and navy color scheme, the Air Force said earlier this year.<\/p>\n

An Air Force spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive plans, told The Associated Press that the two current planes, known as VC-25As, will not be retiring. Instead, they will remain in the fleet until the new Boeing planes, referred to as VC-25Bs, come into service, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how the older jets will be used but the spokesperson said that both the Qatari jet as well as the VC-25As will be available for use and \u201cthe Presidential Airlift Group will select the appropriate aircraft for each mission based on operational requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kim reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report from Washington.<\/p>\n

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