{"id":419407,"date":"2026-05-02T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-force-one-qatari-747-testing-complete\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:17:07","slug":"ready-for-summer-ex-qatari-747-completes-testing-ahead-of-air-force-one-paint-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=419407","title":{"rendered":"Ready For Summer: Ex-Qatari 747 Completes Testing Ahead Of Air Force One Paint Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Air Force\u2019s (USAF) &#8216;Bridge&#8217; <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> is almost ready to enter service. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262475\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>VC-25B<\/span><\/span> interim presidential jet \u2014 a former Qatari Royal Boeing 747-8i \u2014 has officially completed its accelerated modification and flight-testing phase in Texas. The heavily modified superjumbo will now enter the paint shop to receive its Trump-backed red, white, gold and dark blue livery before its scheduled entry into service this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force&#8217;s race to ready a new presidential jet hits a critical milestone.<\/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":[1701,396,399,876,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force-one","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-boeing-747-8","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419407","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=419407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419408,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419407\/revisions\/419408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}