The Air Force would cut its F-35A purchase for fiscal 2026 roughly in half under the White House’s draft defense budget. The service typically buys about four dozen Joint Strike Fighters each ...

It will “probably” cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the Pentagon to transform a luxury Qatari jet into Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday that it will “probably” cost the Air Force less than $400 million to retrofit a luxury Qatari plane that President Donald Trump has ...

Air Force chief: Qatari jet will cost less than $400 million to retrofit Other estimates for transforming the plane into Air Force One have reached the billions.

Bauernfeind wants warriors from the Air Force Academy, so he’s cutting “education” (Opinion) The U.S. Air Force Academy is cutting civilian faculty and removing the word education from its ...

The Air Force is preparing to award a contract to modify the luxury jet.

Work will support a squadron charged with providing initial and advanced information operations and cyber training across the Air Force.

Hegseth to Air Force: Figure out how to modify Qatari jet Converting the luxury plane into Air Force One could cost more than $1 billion, one senator said.

The president’s concerns about Air Force One seem less focused on safety and security and more on size and opulence.

The Air Force graph revealed that the plane would have a top speed of approximately Mach 2+, or around 1,550 miles per hour, similar to the F-22 Raptor.

How Air Force One stacks up to the Qatari 747, Trump's coveted 'palace in the sky' President Donald Trump says Air Force One isn't as impressive as some of the planes of the leaders of Qatar ...

The aircraft now serving as Air Force One are safe, but they are timeworn, and airplanes are meant to fly only for a certain amount of time before they need to be retired.