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Trump’s Air Force One shortcut

By Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman, Adam Rasgon and Eric Schmitt
The Qatari luxury jet, which Trump toured, seen at Palm Beach International Airport, Florida. — Al Drago/The New York Times

US President Donald Trump wanted a new Air Force One – fast.

The planes currently serving as the presidential aircraft were decades old, costly to maintain and increasingly ­unreliable.

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