Comment: RI’s ‘Air Force One’ set to fly in 2013

Feb. 9, Online

The American-based company, Boeing, has officially handed over a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 2 aircraft to the Indonesian government to use as a presidential aircraft, an official says.

The aircraft is expected to be ready to fly President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono and his aides from August, 2013, pending the completion of its cabin interior and self-defense system, the State Secretariat secretary Lambock V. Nahattands, told a press conference on Thursday.

Your comments:

Instead of buying this plane, they should just try to get a mobile conversion kit and convert any available Air Force C-130 into a presidential plane, whenever a presidential trip is scheduled.

This plane will end up wasting money while wasting away on the tarmac. Using a real Air Force plane would be a lot more impressive and show authority.
K. Kortsletin
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