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Air Force One over Mt. Rushmore
Air Force One over the Mt. Rushmore

Air Force One is the air traffic call sign (name) of any Air Force aircraft being used by the President of the United States.

The president usually flies in one of the two specially changed Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets (airplane) kept by the United States Air Force.

They are only called Air Force One when the President is on board; if the Vice President of another senior official is flying it is called Air Force Two. Otherwise it is called by its number like any other airplane.

When Richard Nixon resigned as President in 1974 he flew back to his home in California in Air Force One, but halfway to California he stopped being President and the airplane was then given a new name.


Images for kids

  • United States Air Force Boeing VC-25 (92-9000) landing at Dayton International Airport (1)

    SAM 29000, one of the two VC-25As used as Air Force One, approaching James M. Cox Dayton International Airport, October 2012

  • Theodore Roosevelt and Archibald Hoxsey (1910)

    Theodore Roosevelt and pilot Arch Hoxsey before their flight from St. Louis in October 1910

  • Douglas VC-54C Sacred Cow, circa in 1947 (176246706)

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft, nicknamed the Sacred Cow

  • Douglas VC-118 Independence in flight c1947

    The VC-118 Independence used primarily by President Truman

  • Columbine II Undergoing Restoration

    The VC-121 Columbine II used by President Eisenhower (shown while undergoing restoration in 2016)

  • 707-based SAM 970

    SAM 970 in Eisenhower era livery

  • Livery design for Air Force One

    Loewy's initial design proposal

  • VC-137-1 Air Force One

    SAM 26000 served Kennedy to Clinton (shown in AF2 livery)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963

    Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President aboard SAM 26000 following John F. Kennedy's death.

  • Air Force One SAM 27000

    SAM 27000 served presidents Nixon to George W. Bush.

  • The two Boeing VC-25A Air Force One

    SAM 28000 sits on the ramp as SAM 29000 descends on final approach at Hickam with George W. Bush

  • President George W. Bush aboard Air Force One during the flight from Barksdale Air Force Base to Offut Air Force Base

    President George W. Bush aboard a VC-25 on September 11, 2001

  • Barack Obama meets his staff in Air Force One Conference Room

    President Barack Obama meets with staff mid-flight aboard Air Force One, in the conference room, April 3, 2009.

  • Beech VC-6A USAF

    VC-6A used as Air Force One

  • And-c-37a-89aw

    A USAF Gulfstream V in VIP livery

  • Lockheed JetStar Air One on Display

    Lockheed JetStar used by President Johnson on display at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

  • President George W. Bush, Mrs. Laura Bush and Nancy Reagan

    President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, and former first lady Nancy Reagan toured SAM 27000, housed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in October 2005

See also

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