This is a first look inside the ritzy $400 million plane President Trump is working to renovate after giving up hope that Boeing could hand over a revamped Air Force One while he’s still in office.
The commander in chief will be traveling in style — as the Boeing 747 once owned by the Qatari government is decked out with winding staircases, plush carpeting, leather couches and more, stunning photos show.
The interior of the plane was done by famed French interior design firm Alberto Pinto Cabinet, and boasts gold-colored walls and gold furnishings, reminiscent of the president’s opulent home in Trump Tower.
Every seat in the massive aircraft — which Business Jet Traveler once ranked as the most lavish in the world — is first-class worthy, with paintings adorning the walls along the fuselage, the snaps show.
It will be defense contractor L3Harris’ job to make the necessary modifications to the jet as early as the fall , the Wall Street Journal reported.
The plane will serve as an interim jet while Trump waits on Boeing to complete work on the existing, but aging, presidential fleet.
In February, Trump toured the Qatari-owned 747 in West Palm Beach and teased that he might buy it and turn it into the plane he had not-so-patiently been waiting for.
“I’m not happy with Boeing,” he said at the time.
Trump reportedly turned toward the Florida-based L3Harris after Boeing told the administration it wouldn’t be able to replace the president’s Air Force One fleet until after his term is up.
Boeing has been working on the pair of aging planes since 2017, when Trump, in his first term, had awarded the scrutinized company a $3.9 billion contract to replace the planes, which are known by the military as VC-25A aircraft and as Air Force One when the president is on board.
The fleet has been around since the George H.W. Bush administration and requires heavy maintenance, but Boeing has reportedly fallen too far behind on the $3.9 billion project that it now projects a completion date of 2035.
The project was initially expected to be completed last year, but has been bogged down by a series of supplier, engineering and manufacturing setbacks — and is now running billions of dollars over budget.
Trump’s administration even considered terminating the contract before he took office in January, with Elon Musk reportedly pressing Boeing officials before detailed information — which “made some executives at Boeing uncomfortable,” sources told the Wall Street Journal.
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