Qatar News, Photos, Videos

TransportPublished: July 11, 2026

While the United States is spellbound by the $400 million 747 donated by the Emir of Qatar, the generous ruler gifted Turkey an even more luxurious $500 million jumbo jet from his fleet. With gold-leaf interiors, it even has a hospital with a turbulence-proof surgical bed.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Qatar’s generosity with its Boeing 747 fleet has produced one of the more remarkable parallels in modern government aviation. A former Qatari royal jumbo…

Stories about Qatar

After his son’s $6.3 billion bid to take over Manchester United failed, this Qatari royal who vacations aboard a $300 million superyacht is now eyeing a stake in Inter Milan, one of Europe’s biggest soccer clubs.

A mere 20 months after inspecting the $400 million Qatar 747 at Palm Beach airport, the US president returned aboard the same plane, now transformed into an uber-luxurious Air Force One, landing at the airport that now bears his name

The Emir of Qatar is so big-hearted that when the US leader asked to borrow his plush Boeing 747-8 private jet, the royal permanently gifted the $400 million jumbo with silk walls and two bedrooms, which the mighty USA happily converted into the interim Air Force One

Qatar’s former prime minister lost nearly $100 million in jewels after his assistant accessed the high-security palace vault and calmly FedExed more than 40 royal jewels 7,700 miles away to a Florida psychic who had promised to cleanse their auras

While Mallorca braced for its once-in-a-lifetime eclipse, Qatar’s royals rolled in aboard a $400 million 747 so big that after the 300-ton aircraft landed, the Civil Guard and fire crews briefly tied up part of the airport and had to sweep the 3,270-meter-long runway for debris

The wealthy Emir of Qatar, who donated his plush 747 to the United States, flew his other $400 million personal jumbo 3,000 miles to Mallorca just so he can watch the rare total eclipse in its full glory from his perfectly positioned $500 million Al Lusail superyacht

While one of the Qatari royal family’s plush 747s carries the U.S. leader, another of its jumbo jets which has a throne room, bathrooms with gold fittings, a suite with an electrically adjustable bed, and long corridors to mimic their palaces is rotting away in the Arizona desert

While the United States is spellbound by the $400 million 747 donated by the Emir of Qatar, the generous ruler gifted Turkey an even more luxurious $500 million jumbo jet from his fleet. With gold-leaf interiors, it even has a hospital with a turbulence-proof surgical bed.

This Qatari royal is so wealthy that he splurged $375 million on Europe’s most ostentatious villa. Even bigger than Vatican City, this Sardinian estate has a remote-controlled erupting volcano, five swimming pools, a football pitch, and a secret cave to hide from prying drones

After donating one of his plush 747 jets to the United States, the wealthy Emir of Qatar has spent $35 million+ on a seven-month-long upgrade of his 404-foot-long superyacht. The $500 million vessel has now filled up her 500,000-litre fuel tanks for her next adventure

400 technicians with high security clearance worked three shifts every day inside a top-secret facility in Texas on the luxury 747 donated by Qatar, sweeping it for bugs, installing encrypted comms and new engines, transforming it into the mighty Air Force One in a mere 10 months

The $300 million palatial Boeing 747 gifted by the Emir of Qatar is being transformed into the mighty Air Force One at lightning speed. Slated for a summer delivery, it is already undergoing test flights over the skies of Texas under the call sign ‘Vader 01’