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Trump Takes First Flight on VC-25B Bridge

Heavily modified Boeing 747-8 was a gift from Qatar.

President Donald Trump tours the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on June 19, 2026. [Credit: Official White House photo by Daniel Torok]
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Key Takeaways:

President Donald Trump has made his first flight on the VC-25B Bridge, the modified Boeing 747-8 donated last year by the government of Qatar as a replacement for the 1990s-era Boeing that had served as Air Force One since the administration of George H.W. Bush.

On Wednesday, Trump was accompanied by his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina Anderson on the trip from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Medora, North Dakota, where the president is scheduled to tour and speak at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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