Boeing is currently modifying two Boeing 747-800 aircraft that will carry the Air Force One badge when the president boardes, to replace the existing fleet of two old Boeing 747-200 aircraft. Trump, in 2018, ordered the new jumbo jets to drop Robin’s iconic blue and white design of the Kennedy era for a deeper navy and a range of dark red. Trump’s paint plan is not being considered because it could lead to additional engineering, time and cost, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plan. Politico initially reported that the Air Force study of the new paint had concluded that the dark blue of Trump proposed for the bottom and engine of the aircraft would have caused heating problems for the aircraft, requiring costly redesigns and additional delays in the already overdue program schedule. The current generation of airplanes carried President George W. Bush for the first time. When he was in power, Trump held a model of the new presidential plane with the new color scheme on a table in the Oval Office. “Baby blue does not suit us,” he told Fox News in 2019, having previously revealed sketches of his ideal redesign for the exterior of the plane. Shares fall sharply due to inflation news The Democrat has made public as he tries to read the names of the children who were killed by guns this year Trump’s design used the colors of the American flag. The upper half of the plane would be white, while the dark blue would cover the lower half, including the abdomen. A bright red stripe would give stripes from the cockpit to the tail along the middle section – almost identical to the color scheme on Trump’s personal plane, except that white and blue were inverted. The administration has not officially unveiled a new design for the replacement aircraft, which is currently at a Boeing plant in San Antonio and is undergoing extensive modifications to prepare to transport the president. At present, they are doing a simple painting of white and blue marked with the US Air Force as the work progresses. Officially known as the VC-25B, the new aircraft is estimated to replace the older VC-25A aircraft in 2026, years behind schedule.