Dayton Business Journal
Wright-Patt restarting Air Force One replacement program
by Joe Cogliano

It appears the stalled effort to replace the fleet of Presidential aircraft — a.k.a. Air Force One — is back underway.

In a notice Monday on fbo.gov, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center announced it is again conducting market research to find out what companies can handle the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program. The center is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.

Companies are required to submit information, which will be used to help shape the Air Force’s acquisition strategy, by Oct. 9.

Delivery of the new aircraft isn’t expected until at least 2021.

Currently, the President flies in a modified Boeing 747-200B known as the “flying Oval Office” that went into service in the early 1990s. There are two of those planes, which cost about $325 million each, and have 4,000 square feet of interior floor space.

The Air Force advertised it was doing market research on the replacement program in 2009, but that never got off the ground because of other acquisition priorities.

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