President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder look, with the underbelly of the plane painted navy blue with a red stripe above it. The plane’s left side, where the president boards, features the presidential seal, while the tail of the aircraft has a massive American flag on it.

“This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said from inside the massive Joint Base Andrews hangar, as a couple hundred assembled Air Force personnel looked on.

→ Trump shows off new Air Force One, a gift from Qatar, and admits “a normal president wouldn’t do this”, Fortune, 20 June 2026

The new livery (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

This aircraft, registration N7478D, is now the third Boeing VC-25 in service — the other two being registered as 28000 and 29000. When the President is on board one of these aircraft, it receives the call sign “Air Force One”.

Here’s the original VC-25, registration 28000, as Air Force One with President Obama aboard, on final approach to Langenhagen Airport (EDDV) on 24 April 2016 (I got up early on Sunday morning and grabbed this shot from my balcony when Obama arrived for his TTIP trade visit to Hannover):

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