US President Donald Trump’s Air Force One delivery has slipped behind schedule again after the US Air Force admitted that the project would be delayed by another year.
According to Reuters, On December 12, 2025, the US Air Force said that delivery of the first of two Air Force One Boeing 747s had been rescheduled to mid-2028 rather than 2027.
Delivery of two new Boeing 747-8 aircraft were originally scheduled to begin in 2024, but the 2018 order has been beset by delays.
On February 18, 2025, a Trump official admitted that the project could be delayed until 2029, or even later, however on May 7, 2025, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Darlene Costello said that Boeing is aiming to deliver the new version of the aircraft in 2027.
Costello and Lieutenant General David Tabor said in a joint statement in May 2025 that the US Air Force is “committed” to replacing the 35-year-old VC-25A with “reliable air transport equipped with communications capability and security equal to that of the White House.”
“We are working through VC-25B modification delays attributed to interiors supplier transition, manpower limitations, and wiring design completion,” the statement read.
In September 2025, the US Air Force quietly started converting a Boeing 747-8, donated earlier this year by the government of Qatar, into a specialized aircraft for executive transport.
The Wall Street Journal reported that L3Harris Technologies is leading the project, though the company has not commented.
Air Force One is the official air traffic control-designated call sign for a US Air Force aircraft carrying the president.
