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Trump's New Air Force One Is Really a Bridge Plane With Three Deadlines
President Donald Trump unveiled the new Air Force One on Friday, June 19, 2026, after the Air Force formally brought the modified Qatari Boeing 747 to Joint Base Andrews. The showy reveal settled the optics question first, but the harder public-interest story is still about delivery delays, security thresholds and what it means to normalize a foreign-gift workaround for presidential transport.