{"id":338419,"date":"2025-12-28T05:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-lufthansas-boeing-747-8s-perfect-usaf\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:01:17","slug":"why-lufthansas-boeing-747-8s-are-perfect-for-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=338419","title":{"rendered":"Why Lufthansa&#8217;s Boeing 747-8s Are Perfect For The US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> Jumbo out of production, the United States Air Force has confirmed it will purchase two ex-Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 aircraft. These are to be used as trainers and for spare parts, as the force prepares to bring its VC-25B VIP Air Force One aircraft into service. It may make sense to procure extra aircraft for spares, although it&#8217;s unclear if the USAF sees any other potential role for the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 747 has long been used by the USAF for special missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,8194,734,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-747-8i","category-lufthansa","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338420,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338419\/revisions\/338420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}