Air Force One, New York Times
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President Donald Trump is flying home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted red, white and navy blue jet he arrived in.
The Secret Service advised that President Trump take the old plane to depart Turkey, according to people briefed on the situation.
President Trump has said his Qatar-gifted Air Force One will later go to his presidential library. Eric Trump says a different plane will go there.
The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane.
Donald Trump has ditched his new $400million gifted Qatari jet and switched back to using his old Air Force One to fly out of NATO summit in Turkey.
President Trump took the old Air Force One from Turkey instead of the new plane gifted by Qatar as a security precaution amid hostilities with Iran.
Experts said the lack of such capabilities poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas. The White House defended the aircraft’s safety.
