Editing Boeing C-32 (section)

===Replacement===
[[File:Air Force One at MSP Airport (50238015382).jpg|thumb|A Boeing C-32 is Air Force One as it lands with President Trump in 2020]]
The Trump administration included $6 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=6000000|start_year=2018}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) in its 2018 federal budget proposal to study replacements for the aging C-32A.<ref name="Defense One2">{{cite web|last1=Weisgerber|first1=Marcus|title=Pentagon Wants to Get Started on New Air Force Two and Doomsday Planes|url=http://www.defenseone.com/business/2017/05/pentagon-wants-get-started-new-air-force-two-and-doomsday-planes/138269/ |access-date=24 August 2017|website=[[Defense One]]|date=May 30, 2017 }}</ref> In June 2021, Pentagon leaders in the Biden administration cut funding for the study from its fiscal 2022 budget request. Instead, the Air Force redirected the nominal amount of funding to research and development contracts for three American startup companies: [[Exosonic]] and [[Boom Technology|Boom Supersonic]], which are developing [[Supersonic transport|supersonic passenger jets]]; and [[Hermeus]], which is developing a [[Hypersonic flight|hypersonic passenger aircraft]]. Budget documents state the revised investment “will bolster evaluation and maturation of advanced high speed transport scale aircraft with potential to expand the defense industrial base and serve as C-32A replacements at the appropriate time.”<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Weisgerber |first=Marcus |date=June 1, 2021 |title=Pentagon Shelves Plans for New Air Force Two |url=https://www.defenseone.com/business/2021/06/pentagon-shelves-plans-new-air-force-two/174434/ |access-date=2021-06-05 |website=[[Defense One]] |language=en}}</ref> All three programs are many years away from delivery of production aircraft.
[[File:P20210227AS-0572 (51013312242).jpg|thumb|Joe Biden made his first flight as President aboard a C-32A in 2021]]
The C-32A is not planned to leave [[Air Mobility Command]] service until 2040; however, discussion of the aircraft's age has continued, prompted by high-profile reliability issues.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Newdick|first=Thomas|date=June 3, 2021|title='Air Force Two' Replacement Dropped With Funds Redirected To Supersonic Transport Research|url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40912/air-force-two-replacement-dropped-with-funds-redirected-to-supersonic-transport-research |access-date=2021-08-07|website=The Drive|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> For the duration the C-32A will remain in the fleet, the Air Force will not pursue investment in the airframe beyond already planned modifications, according to the service's fiscal 2022 budget request.<ref name=":6" /> Boeing (the sole producer which can fulfill [[Buy American Act]] purchasing restrictions for government passenger aircraft) has neglected the [[middle of the market]] since the 757 was discontinued in 2004, repeatedly shelving upgrade plans since 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Katz|first=Benjamin|date=2021-07-13|title=Airbus Soars Past Boeing by Showing Little Mercy to Struggling Customers|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbus-boeing-rivals-max-11626189853|access-date=2021-08-07|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> In 2021, the company announced a clean sheet restart of plans for a [[Boeing New Midsize Airplane|successor aircraft]], slated to enter service in the late 2020s.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-01-22|title=Boeing's new CEO orders rethink on key jetliner project|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-boeing-737max-nma-idUKKBN1ZL31J|access-date=2021-11-16}}</ref>