The new Egyptian presidential jet has entered the final stage of preparations in the process of painting its outer hull before its official delivery to Cairo.
The civil aviation website Simple Flying received photos of the new Boeing 747-800 after it was painted in Ireland.
After 26 days of painting in Shannon, Ireland, the plane returned to Hamburg, Germany on Friday for finishing touches before being handed over to the Egyptian government to join the presidential fleet.
The giant “jumbo” appears in plain colors, predominantly white. It was written “Arab Republic of Egypt” in Arabic and English, and had a golden eagle (emblem of the Republic) and the phrase “Long live Egypt” painted on it, in addition to the Egyptian flag on the tail. airplane.
The colors of the Egyptian flag – black, white and red – form a band in the middle of a giant plane.
Egypt bought the aircraft last September, which was registered under registration number “N282BA” before it was changed to “SU-EGY” when ownership was transferred to Cairo.
And Egyptian media and parliamentarian Mustafa Bakri said in television statements that Egypt bought the plane for the president for $240 million in 2019.
The luxury jet spent almost a year in Germany getting the interior ready for the president’s use before recently flying to Ireland to have the exterior painted.
In 2006, the German company Lufthansa ordered 20 aircraft of the same model. While I had 19 of them, one remained in the USA for inclusion in flight tests at the request of Boeing.
The plane had already done some testing from 2015 to 2018 before settling in at Pinal Airpark in Arizona, not flying until Egypt decided to buy it.
Several countries, including the United States and some Gulf states, use the Boeing 747, nicknamed the “Queen of the Sky,” to transport kings, presidents, and high-ranking officials on their overseas flights.
Due to its operating costs and level of luxury, the Queen of the Sky has seen little use in commercial aviation, especially after the travel and tourism sector was hit hard by the Covid-19 epidemic.
The Boeing 747-800 consumes a large amount of fuel at the rate of 10,000 liters of gasoline per hour, as its operating costs exceed $18,000 per hour.
According to Boeing’s 2022 prices, the new 747-800 is valued at $418.4 million.
