New Air Force One jets and hangars to cost 33% more than expected, Pentagon says

[Eugene]

Source: New York Daily News

New Air Force One jets and hangars to cost 33% more than expected, Pentagon says

By DAVID MATTHEWS
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 18, 2019 | 10:00 PM

Purchasing and outfitting two Boeing 747-style jets for the new Air Force One fleet will cost ,35% more than previously estimated, the Pentagon says in documents reported Monday.

The project is now estimated to cost $5.3 billion, the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget proposal says. That’s $1.4 billion more than President Trump has claimed the program will cost, Defense One reported.

Air Force officials have long believed privately that Trump’s estimate of the project’s cost was too low, Defense One said.

Two Boeing 747 jets — originally purchased by but never delivered to a now-defunct Russian airline — are parked at an aircraft boneyard in the Mojave Desert awaiting conversion into presidential jets.

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Related: Air Force One: New Estimate Bumps Total Cost By Nearly One-Third (Defense One)

[mr_lebowski]

1. Trump will now magnanimously forego his new $5.3B planes to use the money for the Wall

Claiming "I'd love the new planes, believe me, but National Security must come first!"

Easy PR win for him with the people who don't know better, which is large part of the US electorate.

[fierywoman]

2. All that gilt-gold costs a lot to apply to all the inner surfaces ...

[Ohiogal]

3. I say

Let’s save some money and give him one of those defective 737 jets.