Most Interesting Facts About Air Force One

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It Can’t Seat Too Many Passengers

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Despite of its grand scale, being a jumbo-jet has its limits. It can only carry 70 passengers and a crew of 26. Every White House administration has its own rules about who can sit where. Still, seating is always assigned on Air Force One. Nearly half of the seats are reserved for the press pool and for Secret Service agents. For commercial Boeing 747s, they can carry at least 300 passengers based on the configuration. On the other hand, building a plane is expensive. But building Air Force One is outrageously expensive. In its initial production alone, the “flying White House” cost $660 million and the Air Force helped pay down the bill in $140 million payments.