Air Force One

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Attempts by Tony Blair to acquire a dedicated government airliner have been reported as long ago as 1998 and such an aircraft has been labelled "Blair Force One" by the media. The Association of Taxation Technicians, a body for professional taxation technicians in the UK. With the military burden on the VC-10 fleet increasing as the number of aircraft in service decreases (and their increasing obsolescence), the Prime Minister and Royal Family have increasingly used chartered British Airways jets for long range travel (typically Boeing 777s). AT&T, an American telecommunications company. 32 Squadron's BAe 146 and BAe 125 aircraft for short range trips. The Royal Air Force has historically been responsible for Royal and executive transportation with its Vickers VC-10 aircraft for long-range travel and No.

An international incident occurred in 2001 when the government claimed it had discovered 27 bugs embedded in the aircraft's interior; the plane had been refitted in San Antonio, Texas. A used Boeing 767 was purchased by the People's Republic of China government for use by President Jiang Zemin in 2000. The aircraft is maintained by Martinair. The callsign is PH-KBX; PH for the Netherlands and KBX for 'Koningin BeatriX' or 'Queen Beatrice'.

It is used to attend international conferences, but also for trips by the queen and the prince royal. The Dutch government operates a Fokker 70(F28-0070) as a means of transport for the Dutch Royal family and government officials, such as the prime minister and other ministers. The planes share a similar scheme to Air Force One: Japan spelled out in Kanji and English on the fuselage, a red stripe painted across the windows from nose to tail, and the Hinomaru on the tail and both wings. Japan maintains two 747-47C (20-1101 and 20-1102) aircraft for the Prime Minister, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and other Government Officials via the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

More broadly, the German air force's "standby airlifting unit" (Flugbereitschaft) has about a dozen business jets and helicopters to handle the transportation needs of German senior officials. Germany's head-of-government uses the Konrad Adenauer, named after the first chancellor of (West) Germany. Air France chartered flights are also used by French officials, most notably the Concorde when it was still in service with that airline. The ETEC uses 6 Falcon 900 for travels within Europe, and 2 Airbus A319 for medium or long range flights.

France's officials travel with the Escadron de transport, d'entraînement et de calibrage (ETEC, "Transportation, training and calibration squadron"), a unit under direct orders of the Ministry of Defence. A Boeing 707-328C XT-BBF, operated by Naganagani, is used to transport the President of Burkina Faso. The 707 was used until May of 2003, when president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva replaced it for a brand new Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner, which despite being officially named Santos Dumont, is called Aerolula, in reference to the president's nickname. In 1986, president Jose Sarney purchased a Boeing 707, which was known as Sucatão (Big Junk).

In 1967, Artur da Costa e Silva acquired a BAC-111, which was used until 1976, when president Ernesto Geisel replaced it with two Boeing 737-200. In 1959, president Juscelino Kubitschek replaced it with two Vickers Viscounts. Brazil has had presidential aircraft since 1941, when Getulio Vargas purchased a Lockheed Lodestar. In Addition, 412 Squadron operates four Bombardier Challenger 604 business jets (CC-144)[3] for VIP transport.

The Canadian Air Force's 437 Squadron operates one of five Airbus A310-300s (CC-150 Polaris) in a VIP configuration for the transport of the Prime Minister, high ranking government officials and foreign dignitaries[2]. The prime minister previously flew in custom-configured Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 707s that were larger than the 737s currently in use. 34 Squadron RAAF (which also operates a number of smaller VIP aircraft), based at Fairbairn Airbase, Canberra. The planes are operated by the No.

The aircraft are also made available to the British royal family (who are considered Australian Royals when in Australia), and were recently utilized by Prince Charles in 2005. The Prime Minister regularly uses the jets for both domestic and international travel. The two planes also had a range capability more than that of other Boeing Business Jets. In 2002, the Royal Australian Air Force acquired two new Boeing Business Jets fitted with facilities such as conference tables, offices suites, secure satellite and communication capabilities for use by Australian officials, especially the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Governor-General.

[1]. In the meantime, two chartered Boeing 747s operated by Aerolineas Argentinas currently serve the Presidential transport role. Tango-01, however, experienced engine trouble over Israel and is currently stranded in that nation. Tango 01 has been at times an object of political contention (even a campaign issue during the 1999 Presidential elections), since many politicians and media commentators decry the aircraft as an unnecessary luxury; while others point at the discretion with which the plane is used by several Presidents, their families and their friends and allies for non-official purposes.

The current Presidential fleet includes a Boeing 757 popularly known as Tango 01 after its military registry, "T-01" (the "T" stands for "Transport", and is pronounced "Tango" in the NATO Alphabet), a Rockwell Sabreliner, a Fokker F28 and two helicopters, one Sikorsky S-70 and one Sikorsky S-76. This group is known as Agrupación Aérea Presidencial (Presidential Air Group), and belongs to the Argentine Air Force, but comes under the administration of the Casa Militar ("Military House"), the department responsible for Presidential security and transportation. Argentina operates a small fleet of aircraft and helicopters for the use of the President, family, and senior government officials. No other mode of transportation for government executives is as well-known as Air Force One; most nations, even industrialized ones, do not maintain a separate aircraft for heads of state and government, although most have a military "VIP fleet" that provides aircraft when senior government officials must travel.

on board the plane. In the book Deception Point by Dan Brown, Air Force One is described from the exterior and a number of miscellaneous facts are mentioned and one of the main characters meets the President of the U.S. These shoes have become popular hip hop icons, and have even been the focus of a 2002 rap song by rapper Nelly aptly titled "Air Force Ones.". In fashion, the term "Air Force Ones" is used to describe a particular all-white shoe that has been sold by Nike since the 1980s.

Union Pacific 4141 is an EMD SD70ACe locomotive with a paint scheme based on that of Air Force One. In the Christian fiction series Left Behind, President Gerald Fitzhugh donates Air Force One to UN Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia and christens it Global Community One (The Global Community being the name of Nicolae Carpathia's proposed One World Government). The plane shown in the FMV's looks more like a Boeing 707 with a noticeably higher fuselage profile or the Airbus Beluga than the Boeing 747. A stage of the arcade game Ghost Squad has the players retake "Air Force One" from a terrorist group.

Further, in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the chancellor of the Klingon Empire is carried on a ship called Qo'noS One (pronounced as 'Kronos' - Qo'noS being the name of the Klingon homeworld). In both series, presidents take the oath of office in a scene closely modeled after the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson. Similarly, in the TV series Babylon 5, the President's ship bears the call sign Earth Force One. The interior and role of the ship were heavily influenced by Air Force One.

The starship of Colonial President Laura Roslin in the Sci Fi Channel TV series Battlestar Galactica bore the call sign Colonial Heavy 798 until Roslin succeeded President Adar after he was killed in the Cylon attack, at which point it was renamed Colonial One. In Anthony Horowitz's novel Eagle Strike, the teenage spy Alex Rider is trapped inside the hijacked Air Force One, providing the reader a description of the plane's interior. After the plane crash lands on Victoria Island, the player must once again rescue the president from enemy forces, encountering portions of the aircraft and furniture thrown from the impact along the way. Then they have to protect the President and get him to the escape pod when aliens conspiring with NSA personnel invade the aircraft mid-flight via a troopship.

First they have to sneak aboard the plane at an Alaskan Air Force base. The player, a secret agent, must attempt to stop the kidnapping of the President during these missions. Three missions of the Nintendo 64 video game Perfect Dark involve a futuristic Air Force One, and once again featured the escape pod. Air Force One has been featured in other films (Independence Day, Superman, and Escape from New York, which also featured the unconfirmable escape pod), books (The President's Plane is Missing), and TV series (The West Wing, Commander in Chief, 24 and NCIS).

The film was noted for its fancifully exaggerated depiction of the plane's capabilities; for example, the real Air Force One does not officially carry an escape capsule, though this cannot be refuted since the exact specifications of the aircraft are classified at the highest level. In the film, Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One and hold the President and other passengers hostage. Air Force One has often been featured in popular culture and fiction, most notably in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Air Force One is a prominent symbol of the presidency and its power; after the White House, it is probably the most recognized Presidential institution.

New aircraft to fulfill the role of Air Force One may be acquired as soon as 2010, when the current 747s will be 20 years old. Kennedy is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. A Douglas VC-118A Liftmaster used by John F. The Air Force One Pavilion was opened to the public on October 24, 2005.

The jet is part of a museum of presidential travel, located at this location. The Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One during the 1980s (SAM 27000) is on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Aircraft which have formerly served as Air Force One are on display in the Presidential Hangar of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio (Sacred Cow, Independence, Columbine III, SAM 26000, and other smaller Presidential aircraft), as well as the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington (earlier VC-137B). Department of Justice said that the plan was enacted because there was evidence "that the White House and Air Force One were targets.".

The following day, officials at the White House and the U.S. Instead of returning to Washington, the Secret Service ordered Air Force One to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, and then to the former Strategic Air Command (now United States Strategic Command) headquarters at Offut AFB in Nebraska, before returning to Washington. Bush from Sarasota, Florida, where he was interrupted at an education event because of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. One of the most dramatic episodes aboard Air Force One happened on September 11, 2001, when it flew President George W.

Bush to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with troops stationed there,¹ though White House officials later denied this.². In November 2003, there was a minor controversy when Air Force One's crew lied to the crew of a passing British Airways jet, informing them that the 416-ton 747 was a 45-ton Gulfstream V corporate jet, while transporting George W. Bush was noted for going to the plane's pressroom to talk to reporters far less than his predecessors. Bush added a treadmill to Air Force One.

President George W. In 1987, Reagan flew on SAM 27000 to Berlin and made his famous "Tear down this wall!" speech. Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger was also on board. Instead, President Reagan sent Secretary of State Alexander Haig and the living former presidents—Nixon, Ford, and Carter—to the funeral.

Because of security concerns, Reagan did not attend the funeral, nor did then-Vice President Bush. On October 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated. Bush. W.

The aircraft was delivered in 1990, during the administration of George H. Most of the interior was completed in Wichita, Kansas. Ronald Reagan's two terms as President saw no major changes to Air Force One but the fabrication of the current 747s began. Bush until it was replaced by the 747's in 1990.

Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. It began service under Nixon and served Gerald R. SAM 27000 was the primary presidential aircraft for more presidents than any other. It was President Ford who first decided that the name of the aircraft itself should be Air Force One, along with the call sign.

Nixon resigned the presidency and departed from Andrews AFB on Air Force One, it was arranged that the plane's call sign would switch from Air Force One to SAM designation (SAM 27000). In 1974, when Richard M. President Nixon dubbed the presidential airliner The Spirit of 1976, in recognition of the upcoming American bicentennial. The role SAM 26000 played during the funeral made several points clear:.

He also escorted her during the state funeral, also at her request. As the former president was laid to rest at his ranch, retired Brigadier General James Cross, pilot of SAM 26000 in Johnson's day, turned over the flag to his wife, Lady Bird, at her request. After the funeral, SAM 26000 brought his body on one final journey home, back to Texas for his burial, landing at Bergstrom AFB in Austin, the airfield Johnson flew into and out of when president. Two days later, SAM 26000 brought the former president's body to Washington, coming from Texas for the state funeral the following day.

On January 22, 1973, LBJ died. Later in 1972, SAM 26000 became the backup aircraft when another 707, SAM 27000, arrived. SAM 26000 also carried President Richard Nixon on his historic trips to mainland China and to Russia in 1972. SAM 26000 flew over Arlington National Cemetery as Kennedy was being laid to rest.

Johnson took the oath of office, and the plane carried Kennedy's body back to Washington. It was on the plane (while it was at Love Field) that Vice President Lyndon B. Kennedy to Dallas, Texas, where early that afternoon he was assassinated. On November 22, 1963, SAM 26000 carried President John F.

A month earlier, it broke 30 speed records when carrying a delegation to Moscow, including the fastest non-stop flight between Washington and Moscow. In late June 1963, Kennedy flew on SAM 26000 to Berlin, where he made his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, and to Ireland. Because the aircraft would be solely for the use of the president, Kennedy asked that the Presidential seal be added to both sides of the nose. flag painted on the tail.

Loewy came up with a powder blue and white design, the same colors used today; he also had the words "United States of America" put on the fuselage's side and the U.S. He also commissioned industrial designer Raymond Loewy to create a distinctive exterior for the plane. In 1962, he added a modified, long-range 707 to the fleet—Special Air Missions (SAM) 26000. Kennedy, presidential air travel officially entered the jet age.

With John F. Towards the end of Eisenhower's term, in 1958, the Air Force added three Boeing 707 jets into the fleet. President Eisenhower also upgraded Air Force One's technology by adding an air-to-ground telephone and an air-to-ground teletype machine. These planes were named Columbine II and Columbine III by Mamie Eisenhower after the official state flower of Colorado, her adopted home state.

Eisenhower also introduced two other propeller aircraft, the Lockheed C-121 Constellations (VC-121E) to Presidential service. The planes accidentally entered the same airspace, and after the incident the unique call sign "Air Force One" was made for the presidential aircraft. The change stemmed from a 1953 incident where an Eastern Airlines commercial flight (8610) had the same call sign as a flight the President was on (Air Force 8610). Eisenhower, the first American president to have been a pilot in his own right.

The call signs were established for security purposes during the administration of Dwight D. This was the first aircraft acting as Air Force One that had a distinctive exterior (an eagle head painted on its nose). He replaced the C-54 with a modified C-118 Liftmaster, calling it the Independence, possibly in reference to President Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri. Truman became President.

After Roosevelt died in spring 1945, Vice President Harry S. Eleanor Roosevelt use it instead. The Secret Service, not wishing to waste resources, instead put the C-87A plane to use by having Mrs. It carried the president to several important events, most notably the Yalta Conference.

This plane was nicknamed the Sacred Cow and included a sleeping area, radio telephone, and retractable elevator for Roosevelt's wheelchair. However, the plane was no longer used for Roosevelt after another C-87A crashed; the Secret Service reconfigured a C-54 Skymaster as a replacement. This plane was called Guess Where Two. The first aircraft officially designated for Presidential flight was the C-87A Liberator Express, a reconfigured B-24 bomber.

The continuing threat from the submarines established air travel as a usual means of distance transportation for the President. The main reason at the time for presidential air travel was the threat of the German Navy's U-boats in the Atlantic. Roosevelt, who traveled on a Boeing 314 "flying boat" aircraft to a 1943 conference in Casablanca on the progress of World War II. The first president to fly in an airplane while in office was Franklin D.

In the 1940s and 1950s, however, air travel became much more convenient. Lack of telecommunications and quick transportation made long-distance travel impractical, as it took up much time and isolated the President from events in Washington. Prior to World War II, overseas and cross-country presidential travel was rare.
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Many of Air Force One's other capabilities are classified for security reasons. The planes also have electronic countermeasures (ECMs) to jam enemy radar and flares to avoid heat-seeking missiles. All wiring is covered with heavy shielding for protection from an electromagnetic pulse in the event of a nuclear attack. The electronics on board are connected with approximately 238 miles (383 km) of wiring, twice that of a regular 747.

Operational modifications include aerial refueling capability and anti-aircraft missile countermeasures. The planes can also be operated as a military command center in the event of an incident such as a nuclear attack. Most of the furniture on board was hand-crafted by master carpenters. There are also secure and non-secure voice, fax, and data communications.

In the office areas, Air Force One features access to photocopying, printing, and word processing services, as well as telecommunication systems (including 85 telephones and 19 televisions). Whenever Air Force One rolls up to an event, it always comes to a stop with the port side of the aircraft facing gathered onlookers as a security measure to keep the President's side of the aircraft out of view. These offices, including the president's suite, are mostly located on the starboard, and a long corridor runs along the port. In addition, there are separate sleeping quarters for guests, senior staff, Secret Service and security personnel, and the news media; the president's executive suite includes a private dressing room, workout room, lavatory, shower, and private office.

On every flight there is a staff doctor. On board Air Force One are medical facilities, including a fold-out operating table, emergency medical supplies, and a well-stocked pharmacy. Writer Tom Harris notes:. There are three entrances onboard.

The main passenger area is on the second floor, and communications equipment and the cockpit are on the third floor. Meals are prepared in two galleys, which together are equipped to feed about 100 people at a time. The food can supply up to 2,000 meals when fully loaded, some of which is stored in freezers. The planes' lowest levels are mostly cargo space, carrying luggage and the plane's food supply.

The planes' 4,000 square feet (370 m²) of interior floor space include multiple modifications. While Air Force One has three floors, like a regular Boeing 747, its interior has been reconfigured for presidential duties. The planes that serve as Air Force One differ from the standard Boeing 747 in size, features, and security precautions. Marine Corps helicopter, call sign Marine One, between Andrews AFB and the White House.

The President is often flown in a U.S. These aircraft are maintained and operated as military operations by the Presidential Airlift Group, part of Air Mobility Command's 89th Airlift Wing, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland. . Since its inception, Air Force One has become a symbol of presidential power and prestige.

The Air Force designation for these aircraft was VC-137. Before these planes entered service, two Boeing 707-320B-type aircraft—tail numbers 26000 and 27000—had operated as Air Force One starting in 1962. The VC-25A is capable of flying 12 600 km (7,800 miles)—roughly one-third of the distance around the world—without refueling and can accommodate more than 70 passengers. Air Force solely for the president.

While these planes are only referred to as "Air Force One" while the president is on board, the term is commonly used to describe either of two aircraft normally used and maintained by the U.S. Since 1990, the presidential fleet has consisted of two specifically configured, highly customized Boeing 747-200B series aircraft—tail numbers 28000 and 29000—with Air Force designation VC-25A. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States (it is a common misconception that "Air Force One" refers to a single airplane). Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any U.S.

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The final services honoring LBJ on January 25 spanned the country in one day because of jets. Johnson agreed to the public honors in Washington because so many others from around the world wanted to join in—40,000 paid their respects when the former president lay in state. Even though he died in Texas, Mrs. In fact, it was used most often by LBJ.

It was the aircraft that LBJ used primarily when president.