Originally Posted by
RufusXS
Because it is a completely different aircraft than what it is painted as, given that the actual AF1 aircraft are very heavily modified, aesthetic changes alone don’t make it the real thing. Therefore it is a REPLICA.
No need to yell.
But that's correct. Add in the fact that the engines and probably anything else that would actually allow the thing to fly have been removed, and it's no longer an airplane/aeroplane, just something that used to be and still looks like one.