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Floor plan for air force one.
Air force one.
Air force and boeing announced they had finalized a contract for the acquisition of two 747 8 aircraft that will eventually serve as the new air force one fleet.
Air force one if the name of the plane that transports the president of the united states to various places around the world.
The same planes are used by the vice president but are called air force two when he is aboard.
They are allowed on in order to follow the president and the.
Air force announced that it will continue the boeing tradition with the 747 8 which will replace the two 747 200s that serve as the presidential air force one fleet.
Air force one has a certain mythic mysterious quality largely because it is completely off limits to most of us.
In the summer of 2018 the u s.
Inside air force one has the specialized electronics and communications equipment with roughly 238 miles of wiring all.
President john f kennedy changed the colours to the baby blue and white.
Air force one looks like a standard boeing 747 but only on the outside.
Even visiting politicians and journalists aren t allowed in some parts of the plane and the air force is careful to conceal specific details of the craft s layout a number of official and unofficial sources have published general descriptions of what s inside the plane but.
Sam 26000 was the first of two boeing vc 137c united states air force aircraft specifically configured and maintained for use by the president of the united states it used the callsign air force one when the president was on board otherwise sam 26000 spoken as sam two six thousand with sam indicating special air mission.
A vc 137c with air force serial number 62 6000 sam 26000 was a.
This acts as the situation room in the sky.
When the 747 8 takes flight as the next air force one boeing airplanes will mark more than half a century of presidential service through the jet age.
Since that time air force one has transported ten sitting presidents while they traveled the world.
President to fly in a customized jet was john f.
The first air force one jet which was used by president dwight eisenhower starting in 1959 had a red and gold design.
The presidential fleet consists of two customized boeing 747 200b aircraft military designation vc 25a called sam 28000 and 29000.
