Remarks: "FREEDOM ONE" Current markings: 89th Military Airlift Wing, Andrews AFB, Maryland, 1998.
One of three 707-153s bought "off-the-shelf" and converted to military use, this aircraft was completed as a VC-137A by Boeing Aircraft of Seattle, Washington on April 7, 1959. On May 30, 1959 this aircraft was accepted by the U. S. Air Force, painted in Military Air Transport Service colors (white top with extensive Day-Glo orange) and markings and assigned to the 1298th Air Transport (Special Missions) Squadron at Andrews AFB, MD with a deployment to Washington National Airport in Washington, DC. In June 1961, the aircraft was assigned to the 1254th Air Transport (Special Missions) Wing, Andrews AFB.
Remarks: "FREEDOM ONE" Current markings: 89th Military Airlift Wing, Andrews AFB, Maryland, 1998.
One of three 707-153s bought "off-the-shelf" and converted to military use, this aircraft was completed as a VC-137A by Boeing Aircraft of Seattle, Washington on April 7, 1959. On May 30, 1959 this aircraft was accepted by the U. S. Air Force, painted in Military Air Transport Service colors (white top with extensive Day-Glo orange) and markings and assigned to the 1298th Air Transport (Special Missions) Squadron at Andrews AFB, MD with a deployment to Washington National Airport in Washington, DC. In June 1961, the aircraft was assigned to the 1254th Air Transport (Special Missions) Wing, Andrews AFB.
Remarks: Presidential plane that entered service during John F. Kennedy administration and used until replaced by a VC-25A(747-200) in 1990 under George H.W. Bush adminstration.
Remarks: The second "Air Force One" VC-137C, on display at the Reagan Library. Actually a 707-353B heavily modified for presidential use, this aircraft was used by President Ronald Reagan for all eight years he was in office. There are three levels of access around the aircraft and this unique view is from the lowest, about thirty feet below the nose.
