{"id":408518,"date":"2026-04-19T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ex-qatari-luxury-boeing-747-8-delivered-interim-af1-summer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:00:17","slug":"confirmed-ex-qatari-luxury-boeing-747-8-to-be-delivered-as-interim-air-force-one-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=408518","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Ex-Qatari Luxury Boeing 747-8 To Be Delivered As Interim Air Force One This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After extensive speculation, it has now been confirmed that a lavish former Qatari Boeing 747-8I model will serve as a temporary presidential transport aircraft while Boeing&#8217;s purpose-built next-generation <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59012\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force-one\/\"  >Air Force One<\/a><\/span> jets remain years behind schedule. The Air Force notes that the aircraft, which has been described as the VC-25B Bridge Aircraft, has entered flight testing. After passing these flight tests, the aircraft will be eligible to begin serving as a presidential jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft will be used as a stopgap solution until new models arrive.<\/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":[1701,396,876,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force-one","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747-8","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408518","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=408518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408534,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408518\/revisions\/408534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}