Eric Trump opened the doors to Trump Force One on July 9, 2026, giving a special tour and exclusive interview at the newly renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. The visit put Donald Trump’s private Boeing 757 and the airport’s new name in the same frame on the same day.
That pairing is the reason the plane is drawing attention now. Trump bought the jet in February 2011 for about $100 million from Paul Allen, and it later became a familiar part of his political travel, including the 2016 presidential campaign. The aircraft has TRUMP painted on it and now carries upgrades such as 24 karat gold-plated seatbelts, details that make it less a utility and more a rolling marker of the Trump brand.
Trump Force One is not the plane Trump uses when he is in office. In January 2017, after being sworn in as president, he stopped using the aircraft and flew aboard Air Force One, the official method of air travel while he serves as president. That split matters because the jet shown at the airport is a private plane tied to family and political use, not the government aircraft that carries the president on official trips.
The airport rename itself is the unresolved piece in the story. Palm Beach International Airport is now President Donald J. Trump International Airport, but the available facts do not lay out the full process that led to the change. What is clear is that the renamed airport was the setting for Eric Trump’s tour, and that the timing gave the plane, the family name and the airport sign a single public moment.
Trump has kept the plane in view before. It was parked at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach on October 25, 2022, with a new paint job showing TRUMP on the fuselage and an American flag on the tail, and Former President Trump later disembarked Trump Force One at Miami International Airport on June 12, 2023. A 747 jet gifted from Qatar was described on June 19, 2026, as the new Air Force One plane, which only sharpens the contrast between the private jet on display and the official aircraft tied to the presidency. For now, Eric Trump’s tour does not answer how the airport was renamed, but it does make clear what the new sign is meant to say: the Trump brand is being placed at the center of the place where the plane lands.
