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"thunder" <thunder@cinci.rr.com> wrote in
news:T5_xc.72776$DG4.14509@fe2.columbus.rr.com:
>
>> Actually it IS Air Force one. Reagan is given the honor
>> of the term president FOR LIFE.
>
> Air Force one is the call sign only when a sitting president is on
> board any airplane even if it is on a commercial plane. Example. when
> a former president leaves office and is flown to his choice of
> destination he is flown on the air force jet (a boeing 747) the call
> sign for the plane is Executive One. Another example is when President
> Nixon left office. When he boarded the air force jet it was known as
> Air Force one and took off, he was still the president in mid
> flight.When Gerald Ford was sworn in as President while Air Force One
> was in route to California, The call sign was changed immediately to
> Executive One and all air towers and airports in the flight path of
> the air force jet was immediatley notified of the call sign change
> immediatly, infact all radar towers tracking the air force jet even
> showed the call sign change to Executive One.
>
>
>
This is not correct.
A US Military aircraft carrying a sitting president is referred to by ATC
as "<service> One" where "<service>" is the branch of the military
operating the aircraft. Ssince the Air Force operates the presidential
747s, the call sign, only when the sitting president is aboard, is "Air
Force One". When President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln, the
call sign was "Navy One". Since the Marines operate the presidential
helicopter, the call sign, again only when the sitting president is aboard,
is "Marine One". If the sitting president were to fly on non-military
aircraft, such as an airline or private aircraft, the call sign would be
"Executive One". If a retired president, but not the sitting president, is
aboard, there is no special call sign assigned. In the case of Nixon, the
call sign became, upon the swearing in of President Ford, "Air Force nnnnn"
where "nnnnn" was the last 5 digits of the Air Force assigned serial number
to the aircraft.
The use of specal call signs, including "xxx One", is spelled out in the
FAA Air Traffic Publication 7110.10 "Flight Services".
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