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What aircraft is this?

Postby Theis » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:02 am

what is this?
Air force junior?
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/877945/M/

Hope you can give me an answer

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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:28 am

Well according to the information at the bottom of the page it is a VC-9C ;)
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby Theis » Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:59 am

no, i mean, what its use?
what do you use it for??
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby Felix/FFDS » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:52 am

VIP transport.  If the president were to fly in it on a short hop, the IT would be "Air Force 1"....

Q:  What's the smallest USAF plane to have become "Air Force 1"  (or it's equivalent?)
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:52 am

Flying? ;D
I think it is the Vice-Presidents plane, best to ask one of our American experts I'm sure they'll know ;)
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:54 am

Piper Cub? ;D
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby Felix/FFDS » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:48 am

Piper Cub? ;D



I *think* if memory serves me right, it was one of the smaller Aero Commanders ...
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:12 am

Oh okay, I know Ike learnt to fly on a Cub ;)
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby TacitBlue » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:58 pm

It was an Aero Commander 500, Ike used it when campaigning for re-election. Theres even a repaint of it for Milton Schupes AC500.
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby C » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:16 pm

I think its the USAF plane used for the personal use of the Presidential dogs, much in the same way 32 Sqn (the Royal Sqn) of the RAF has the BAe 125 to carry the Queens corgis...
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby OTTOL » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:40 pm

like the caption says.....it's a C-9 or "VC-9"(essentially a DC-9 with the military throwing there $.02 in the designation).
Despite the Air Force one-esque paintjob, most C-9's are used for MAC flights( or...... not-so-VIP's).

The Marine Corps even has one with an accordion style, fold-down ramp, that when extended, is about 10mX3m!
The "band" travels around in it. I've seen it in person. They pulled up with, what looked like,  a giant ping-pong table in the cargo door. The crewchief yells "stand back"(OK...... I added that part for affect) and then this thing extends out, Inspector Gadget style.
The backup for AF-1 is a the 757 and after that, they have a Gulfstream or two.
.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby SilverFox441 » Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:09 pm

VC-9s were used as AF-1 during the Clinton years. He liked visiting smaller airports and sometimes needed the smaller planes.

A couple of times Clinton even flew on smaller planes like the Gulfstreams.
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby ctjoyce » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:45 pm

When I livend in Keene NH Clinton Visited in a Beechjet 400A and his press in a Lear 35. Was pretty cool to watch as they let us almost right up to the plane to take pictures etc.
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby Martini » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:17 am

I would've thought it was an older AF-1, but then I remembered how old the 747 is. lol
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Re: What aircraft is this?

Postby NavyTopGun » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:32 am

....The backup for AF-1 is a the 757 and after that, they have a Gulfstream or two.


the backup for AF-1 is another 747
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