Trump’s Air Force One presidential livery rollout begins with C-32A repaint
February 18, 2026
First unveiled by President Trump back in 2019, it would appear that the rollout of the new US presidential livery is finally underway. A C-32A has been spotted sporting a revised colour scheme featuring the red, white and navy blue livery first unveiled by the president during his first term in office.
With the appearance of this first aircraft, more are expected to follow in the coming months, with various types due to receive the makeover.
Air Force Two C-32A receives a presidential makeover
One of the US Air Force’s C-32A VIP transport aircraft, a military version of the Boeing 757-200 airliner, has emerged from a paint shop in Texas wearing the new presidential paint job. The colour scheme is the same as that featured in images of the upcoming Air Force One VC-25Bs that are currently being modified for presidential use.
The red, white, and navy blue scheme, featuring a US stars-and-stripes flag on the tail, first appeared on an aircraft back in November 2025, when a Department of Homeland Security Boeing 737 BBJ (registered as N471US) was rolled out wearing the scheme.
The C-32A fleet uses the radio callsign ‘Air Force Two’ when carrying the vice president, but the eight aircraft are also used to carry senior US diplomatic staff and the First Lady when she travels on official duties.
According to photos posted on the social media platform X, the C-32A (tail number 99-0003) featuring the new scheme was captured as it carried out a test flight from Majors Airport (GVT) in Greenville, Texas, where it has been undergoing maintenance.
The airport is home to an L3Harris Mission Integration facility. This contractor is no stranger to carrying out work on US government jets, having also been tasked with modifying the Qatari Boeing 747-8i BBJ that was gifted to President Trump in July 2025.
USAF C-32A 99-0003 – In the new paint scheme during some testing by L3Harris, matching the future AF1, USCG G700, and USCG/DHS B38M. https://t.co/CYRF5JcW8c
— U.S. Government Jets (@USGovJets) February 17, 2026
Members of the US Air Force C-32A fleet are regular visitors to the L3Harris facility at the airport, where they receive routine and heavy maintenance checks, along with other work required to keep them airworthy. The plant also carries out conversions, upgrades, and other work related to special mission aircraft within the US government fleet.
According to data from Flightradar24, 99-0003 has been at Majors Airport since 8 December 2025, when it was spotted arriving at the airfield wearing its previous blue and white livery, as worn by the current US presidential fleet, which includes Air Force One. As reported by TWZ, the aircraft was then spotted in early February in a bare metal finish, having been stripped of its previous livery.
Details of the new presidential aircraft livery
As displayed by the C-32A at Greenville, as well as the DHS 737BBJ unveiled last year, the new paint scheme features a white upper fuselage with the lower fuselage in navy blue. The two colours are separated by horizontal red and gold cheatlines that stretch the whole length of the fuselage from nose to tail.
The all-white tail features a ‘billowing’ US flag while a small US Air Force logo appears on the rear fuselage. Large ‘United States of America’ titles appear in block capitals along the upper mid fuselage above the window line.
Up until now, the US Air Force’s fleet of eight C-32As, along with several C-40s (Boeing 737BBJs) and, of course, the two current Air Force One VC-25A aircraft (based on the Boeing 747-200) have all featured the iconic ‘robin’s egg blue’ livery first designed in the Kennedy era and said to have been inspired by Jackie Kenedy herself working alongside the famous designer Raymond Loewy.
However, during his first term in office in 2019, President Trump unveiled a new presidential livery that he said would feature on the two new Boeing VC-25Bs aircraft that will become the new Air Force One aircraft. So far, this livery has only been spotted on the DHS 737BBJ, two US Coast Guard Gulfstream G700 business jets and now 99-0003 in Greenville.
Trump’s decision to introduce the new presidential scheme was later reversed in 2023 by President Joe Biden during his term in the White House. Unveiling new renders of the new VC-25Bs featuring the Kennedy-era scheme, Biden told reporters that the new aircraft would revert to the traditional livery.
However, during the early stages of his second term, Trump began holding meetings in the Oval Office where a model of Air Force One wearing his revised creation would take a prominent spot in the room, implying that his vision would once again be the livery of choice for the incoming jets.
The rollout of the new scheme is set to continue
With the rollout of the BBJ, the G700 business jets and now the C-32A, it would appear that the Trump version of the presidential colour scheme is coming to life on real aircraft rather than simply on models in the White House.
In a statement issued to TWZ, the US Air Force confirmed that other C-32As are due to receive the new red, white, and blue paint scheme, and that this livery will also be applied to the future VC-25Bs as well as the ex-Qatari 747-8i.
Newly Repainted N471US Boeing 737 MAX 8 BBJ Linked to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Operationshttps://t.co/9sIUYBeTa5 pic.twitter.com/EM4ut2zQAJ
— MarcelvandenBerg (@ArcelvandenBerg) December 15, 2025
“The Air Force is implementing a new paint scheme requirement (red, white, gold and dark blue) for VC-25B as well as the additional executive airlift fleet, which will include the new 747-8i and four C-32 aircraft,” a spokesperson for the service told TWZ.
“The C-32s will be painted during regularly scheduled maintenance. The first C-32 has been painted and is expected to be delivered to the Air Force in the next few months.”
Notably, the statement makes no specific mention of the two former Lufthansa Boeing 747-8s that were recently acquired by the US Air Force from the German carrier in January.
The status and purpose of these two aircraft, therefore, remain unclear at this stage, although reading between the lines of the USAF statement, it would appear that these aircraft will not be receiving the new presential livery any time soon.
Featured image: @Tt33operator / X
