Air Force One set for makeover paint job with new colours
BBC • • nation
Key Points:
- The US presidential fleet, including Air Force One and other planes used by top officials, is being repainted with a new color scheme featuring gold, deep red, and navy blue, reflecting President Donald Trump's preferred colors.
- This new design will also be applied to a luxury Boeing 747-8i donated by Qatar, which is being retrofitted to serve as Air Force One, with repainting already completed on one C-32 aircraft.
- The traditional white, blue, and robin's egg blue colors used since the 1960s are being replaced as part of scheduled maintenance, with the US Air Force stating the repainting will not cause additional costs or delays.
- The updated colors mirror the palette used on Trump's private campaign plane,
