{"id":410233,"date":"2026-04-21T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-747-8-air-force-one-begins-test-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:42:33","slug":"calling-vader-01-the-boeing-747-8-destined-to-be-air-force-one-begins-test-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=410233","title":{"rendered":"Calling &#8216;Vader 01&#8217;: The Boeing 747-8 Destined To Be Air Force One Begins Test Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The converted<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> 747-200 aircraft (known as the VC-25A) that bear the callsign &#8216;Air Force One&#8217; when operating flights with the American President on board are among the most recognizable planes in the sky. However, they are not getting any younger, and a replacement is planned in the form of the VC-25B (based on the 747-8). Unfortunately, the US Government has long been frustrated by delays, forcing it to take another route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been tracking the exclusive quadjet?<\/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":[396,398,399,7862,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-donald-trump","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410233","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=410233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410234,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410233\/revisions\/410234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}