By: J Boyle - 11th September 2007 at 14:52
That would be VC-137C 26000, now at the NMUSAF.
By: WP840 - 11th September 2007 at 08:53
Which aircraft carried JFKs coffin with his wife after he was shot in 1963?
By: Papa Lima - 10th September 2007 at 21:45
This is the 707 at Boeing Field, Seattle
By: J Boyle - 10th September 2007 at 21:19
Also, two of the three short-body 707s used before the delivery of 26000 are prerserved. One is at Pima Air and Space, the other is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
The third was scrapped at Witchita, when withdran from service.
I’ve heard it was after corrosion was found. (If anyone has more info, I’d welcome it. I can’t believe the 89th MAW would let a plane get that bad…)
By: Arabella-Cox - 10th September 2007 at 20:56
Courtesy of wikipedia:
Several presidential 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 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington (earlier VC-137B SAM 970).
United Airlines has the distinction of being the only commercial airline to have operated Executive One, the designation given to a civilian flight on which the U.S. President is aboard. On December 23, 1973, then-President Richard Nixon flew as a passenger aboard a Washington Dulles to Los Angeles flight. It was explained by his staff that this was done in order to conserve fuel by not having to fly the usual Boeing 707 Air Force aircraft.[6]
On March 8, 2000, President Clinton flew to Pakistan aboard an unmarked Gulfstream III while another aircraft with the call sign “Air Force One” flew on the same route a few minutes later. This diversion was reported by several US press outlets and is not a secret event. This was presumably done as a diversion in case terrorists attempted to shoot down the aircraft that the president was aboard.
The Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One from the Nixon years to the current George Bush administration (SAM 27000) is on display in Simi Valley, California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The Library’s Air Force One Pavilion was opened to the public on October 24, 2005.
A VC-118A Liftmaster used by John F. Kennedy is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
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