Pricey ticket. According to Kenneth Walsh, author of “Air Force One: A History of Presidents and Their Planes,” the cost to operate presidential aircraft in the 1950s was roughly $348 per hour.

Air Force One has been in the news lately after President Trump accepted a gift of a Boeing 747-8 from Qatar worth an estimated $200 million to $400 million. Air Force One, the president’s ...

Any Air Force plane carrying the president is called Air Force One, though the term is usually applied to the jetliners modified for the purpose. The current aircraft are 35 years old.