Air Force One

Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign of any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States.Air Force One is a prominent symbol of the American presidency and its power,and the aircraft are among the most famous and most photographed in the world.

Air Force One History

On October 11, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an aircraft, although at the time of the flight in an early Wright Flyer from  Kinloch Field (near St. Louis, Missouri), he was no longer in office, having been succeeded by William Howard Taft. The record-making occasion was a brief. overflight of the crowd at a country fair but was nonetheless, the beginning of presidential air travel.

After Roosevelt died in spring 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman became President. The legislation that created the U.S. Air Force, the National Security Act of 1947, was signed by Truman while on board the VC-54C.[7] He replaced the VC-54C in 1947 with a modified C-118 Liftmaster,calling it the Independence (also the name of Truman's hometown in Missouri). This was the first aircraft acting as Air Force One that had a distinctive exterior– a bald eagle head painted on its nose.

NO	RANK	NAME	TERM	PREDIDENT
1	Lieutenant Colonel	Henry T. Myers	June 1944 – April 1945	Franklin Roosevelt
1	Lieutenant Colonel	Henry T. Myers	April 1945 – January 1948	Harry Truman
2	Colonel	Francis W.Williams	January 1948 – January 1953	Harry Truman
3	Colonel	William G. Draper	January 1953 – January 1961	Dwight Eisenhower
4	Colonel	James Swindal	January 1961 – November 1963	John F. Kennedy
4	Colonel	James Swindal	November 1963 – July 1965	Lyndon Johnson
5	Colonel	James U. Cross	July 1965 – May 1968	Lyndon Johnson
6	Lieutenant Colonel	Paul Thornhill	May 1968 – January 1969	Lyndon Johnson
7	Colonel	Ralph D. Albertazzie	January 1969 – August 1974	Richard Nixon
8	Colonel	Lester C. McClelland	August 1974 – January 1977	Gerald Ford
8	Colonel	Lester C. McClelland	January 1977 – April 1980	Jimmy Carter
9	Colonel	Robert E. Ruddick	April 1980 – January 1981	Jimmy Carter
10	Lieutenant Colonel	Richard J. Klinker	January 1981 – January 1989	Ronald Reagan
11	Colonel	Robert D. “Danny” Barr[	January 1989 – January 1993	George H. W. Bush
11	Colonel	Robert D. “Danny” Barr[	January 1993 – January 1997	Bill Clinton
12	Colonel	Mark S. Donnelly	January 1997 – January 2001	Bill Clinton
12	Colonel	Mark S. Donnelly	January 2001 – June 2001	George W. Bush
13	Colonel	Mark W. Tillman	June 2001 – January 2009	George W. Bush
14	Colonel	Mark W. Tillman	January 2009 – Present	Barack Obama

Other presidential aircraft

United Airlines was 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 26, 1973, then-President Richard Nixon flew as a passenger aboard a Washington Dulles to Los Angeles International 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.

In November 1999, President Bill Clinton flew from Ankara, Turkey, to Cengiz Topel Naval Air Station outside Izmit, Turkey, aboard a marked C-20C (Gulfstream III)

using the call sign "Air Force One", escorted by three F-16s.

On March 8, 2000, President Bill 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 U.S. press outlets.

In May 2009, President Barack Obama took the first lady on a date to New York City in a Gulfstream 500. On July 16, 2010, the Obama family flew to Maine for

vacation in a Gulfstream III painted in presidential colors.

The president also flies in Marine One helicopters operated by the U.S. Marine Corps.