Showing Its Age
According to a Live Science report, both planes that are currently called signed as Air Force One are actually very highly customized Boeing 747-200B jets. The currently two planes were purchases under Ronald Reagan’s administration. However, they didn’t actually go into service until much later, in 1990, under the then-president George H.W. Bush’s administration. Since the jets were commissioned Boeing has shut down all production on its 747-200 style of the jet. As a result, it has made finding replacement parts for the plane a very arduous task. In some cases, spare parts have had to be kulled from jetliners that are parked in the desert.
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