IIRC, he negotiated the deal for two of them to be made for the price of one. The projected delivery of it was 2024 ish or something like they, but I am sure they could have made this their sole project and finished way ahead of schedule.
Did some digging. New ones are (modified, obviously) Boeing 747-8's. Current AF1 is a (modified) 747-200B.
747-8 has been in production since November 2005.
Boeing's website does not specify a completion date, just that the 200B's will be replaced by 8's.
Given their existing production line, I could really quite easily see an existing 747-8 getting the necessary modifications in significantly less time than ~3-4 years.
As an interesting side note, while I don't believe it is significant, the website features comparisons, with one of them being range - the 200B's can travel from DC to Tokyo, whilst the 8's can travel DC to Hong Kong.
I do think that we may be on to something, though; all these pics with that in the forefront, and people were saying something about Dan Scavino posting pics of/with it?
IIRC, he negotiated the deal for two of them to be made for the price of one. The projected delivery of it was 2024 ish or something like they, but I am sure they could have made this their sole project and finished way ahead of schedule.
Did some digging. New ones are (modified, obviously) Boeing 747-8's. Current AF1 is a (modified) 747-200B.
747-8 has been in production since November 2005.
Boeing's website does not specify a completion date, just that the 200B's will be replaced by 8's.
Given their existing production line, I could really quite easily see an existing 747-8 getting the necessary modifications in significantly less time than ~3-4 years.
As an interesting side note, while I don't believe it is significant, the website features comparisons, with one of them being range - the 200B's can travel from DC to Tokyo, whilst the 8's can travel DC to Hong Kong.
You can read more about the plane here.
I do think that we may be on to something, though; all these pics with that in the forefront, and people were saying something about Dan Scavino posting pics of/with it?