The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Royal Qatari family which will be improved to serve as a force Air One, in the greatest foreign gift ever received by the US government, said a senior official who has direct knowledge of the case.
The plane will then be donated to the presidential library of President Trump when he leaves his duties, said the manager, allowing him to continue to use it as a private citizen.
The plan raises substantial ethical problems, given the immense value of the sumptuously appointed plane and the fact that Mr. Trump plans to use it after leaving his functions. Sold new, a 747-8 commercial Boeing is around $ 400 million.
Trump’s own private plane, known as “Trump Force One”, is an older Jet 757 that stolen for the first time in the early 1990s and was then used by the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen. Trump bought it in 2011. The Qatari jet, if Mr. Trump continued to pilot him after leaving his duties, would give him a much more recent plane for his own use.
The plan – reported earlier by ABC News – is expected to be announced in the coming days, while Mr. Trump made the first prolonged foreign trip from his presidency to three nations in the Middle East, including Qatar. He will carry out the president’s desire for a new air force, after repeated delays involving a government contract for Boeing for two new jets to serve this objective.
Trump visited Qatari 747, who has just over a decade, when he was parked at Palm Beach International Airport in February. The New York Times then reported that the jet was considered a possible new air force.
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