In August 2017, six months after their victory in Super Bowl 51, reports broke that the New England Patriots purchased a pair of airplanes. The first NFL franchise to own its personal planes, New England invested in two Boeing 767s — each worth around $10 million, not counting the styling or retrofitting to turn them both into first-class-only planes — to carry the team to its road games in the future.
In October of the same year, the AirKrafts were finally unveiled and have been used by the team ever since.