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Boston Globe
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Homeland Security looks to buy a new $50m jet for secretary and Coast Guard officials
Advertisement The request for a new jet comes as President Donald Trump considers accepting a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Adm. Kevin Lunday, the acting commandant, said the Coast Guard, like the other military services, operates two military 'long-range command and control aircraft' and the one being replaced is more than 20 years old. 'Like a lot of the rest of our operational aviation fleet and our cutters and our boats and our shore facilities, it's old and it's approaching obsolescence and the end of its service life,' he said during the hearing. 'The avionics are increasingly obsolete. The communications are increasingly unreliable, and it is in need of recapitalization like much of the fleet.' Advertisement Lunday, who became acting commandant on Jan. 21 after Trump, a Republican, fired Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, said the jet is needed to provide the DHS secretary, deputy secretary, himself, the acting vice commandant and two area commanders with 'secure, reliable, on-demand communications and movement to go forward.' The current plane is also 'outside the Gulfstream's service life, and well beyond operational usage hours for a corporate aircraft,' Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement, calling its replacement 'a matter of safety.' The agency did not immediately respond to questions about Noem's use of the plane or other details about the agency's request. The Coast Guard received its other long-range command and control C-37B aircraft in 2022, saying at the time its mission was to 'operate as a command and control platform anywhere in the world for the secretary of Homeland Security, the commandant of the Coast Guard, and other top DHS leadership.' That jet, which has a range of 5,000 nautical miles and can carry 12 people, is based at Coast Guard Air Station Washington, D.C.
Cedar News
14-02-2025
- Politics
- Cedar News
US Air Force plane mysteriously spotted in Moscow days after Putin invite
Join our Telegram A US Air Force plan typically use for sensitive missions has been mysteriously spotted in Moscow just days after Vladimir Putin invited Donald Trump to Russia. The US Air Force C-37B was seen flying to Russia's capital today.
