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Washington, DC —

When President Donald Trump departed Turkey this week, he boarded a 35-year-old modified Boeing 747, not the newly converted plane parked across the tarmac that had been introduced with much fanfare just days earlier.

The decision intensified scrutiny of the Qatari-donated jet, which was converted on an unusually compressed timeline, raising questions about whether it received the communications, security and defensive upgrades necessary to serve as the heavily fortified “flying White House.”

The latest flight happened as the United States launched strikes on Iran, which shares a border with Turkey.

President Donald Trump flew out of Turkey aboard the older version of Air Force One instead of the new Qatari plane.