Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The retired jet is now a ...

Take a look inside. Four US presidents flew aboard the Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. In 1959, the customized Boeing 707-153 known as SAM 970 became the new presidential aircraft ...

The E-7 is considered a stop-gap measure; its missions will likely be shifted to space-based platforms in the 2030s, and the ...

Even before delivery, new technologies are being investigated for possible integration on the USAF’s future E-7 Wedgetail ...

A decade earlier Boeing’s 707 had ushered in the Jet Age ... president for almost three decades under the call sign Air Force One. It carried the space shuttle. And it was the star of any ...

On July 17, Doc, a restored Boeing B ... the Commemorative Air Force crew,” says Jim Murphy, project manager in Wichita. “They’ve been a tremendous help to us from day one.

On April 18, 1952, the Convair YB-60 took to the skies for the first time. Developed as a jet-powered evolution of the B-36 ...

Other 89th Airlift Wing aircraft, such as the Boeing C-40 Clipper, C-20B, C-37A, and C-37B, have also served in this role. The VC-25A, the aircraft most often used by the president as Air Force One, ...

A Boeing jet set to be delivered to Xiamen Airlines in China was returned to the U.S. amid a growing trade war between the ...

That's my opinion … and I will offer that to the senior leadership, but I can see the difference that it makes,” Air Force Chief Gen. David Allvin told Defense One in March during the annual ...