The top priority is an affordable aircraft that will meet the presidential requirements, we're buying up to three. It depends on all the availability of having two airplanes available for the president at any one time.

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The current airplane was fielded in 1991, it's the only 747-200 left in the United States that is flying. So it costs a lot more time and money to keep that airplane flying than it used to. It's actually cheaper in the long run to replace it.

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