Air Force says Qatar jet retrofit will cost less than $400M

It will cost about $400 million to convert a luxury jet from Qatar into an Air Force One, the Air Force’s top civilian leader said today—a price tag far lower than previous estimates. The Pentagon recently accepted a Boeing 747 from the Qatari government to use as a presidential jet for President Trump, a proposition that current and former Air Force officials have said could cost more than $1 billion, since it needs to be stripped to check for bugs then loaded with encrypted co