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Tucson company delivers personal jet to McCain's VP

Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 9/05/2008 10:31 am
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is known for selling the jet her predecessor as Alaska governor used to tool around the state.

She now has one of her own.

A Tucson company delivered the freshly painted campaign jet on Thursday, just six days after Arizona Sen. John McCain announced her as his running mate.

Global Aircraft Solutions sent the Embraer 190 regional jet sporting the Republican ticket's campaign logo to St. Paul, Minn. to pick up Palin.

Global Aircraft President John Sawyer says the plane seats about 100 people and has been reconfigured with bigger first-class seats, dividers and an area for the press.

New York-based JetBlue Airways will operate the plane.


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