Biden scraps Trump design for Air Force One over cost and delay

A model of the new Air Force One (Evan Vucci/AP)

Joe Biden’s administration has scrapped former president Donald Trump’s red, white and blue design for the new generation of presidential aircraft after an Air Force review suggested it would raise costs and delay the delivery of the new jets.

Boeing is currently modifying two Boeing 747-800 aircraft that will bear the Air Force One callsign when the president is onboard to replace the existing fleet of two aging Boeing 747-200 aircraft.