Presidential travel is a far cry from a typical commercial flight. No ordinary aircraft could serve as Air Force One. When the Air Force selected a pair of Boeing 747-200Bs (one as a spare) as Air ...

To identify the 25 most common planes in active service in the U.S. Air Force, 24/7 Wall St. referenced the 2023 report, World Air Forces, from FlightGlobal, an aviation and aerospace industry ...

Ages of planes. The current Air Force One plane was completed in 1990 and has served six presidents: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Trump, both in his ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said the service's maintainers have pulled off "miracles" to keep planes in the air, despite a lack of spare parts, manpower and decades-old aircraft.