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BTR can. The next stop on his trip can not.

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When I was doing a lot of work out at BTR, I asked one of the guys there about AF1. They said it can take off and land there. It apparently has unreal thrusting and braking capabilities.

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Wonder if this plane is equipped with all the defenses and high tech gadgetry as the regular AF-1. This is the plane thats used to shuttle staff and secret service to and from locations the president is going.

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Other presidential aircraft Air Force One, the presidential state car, and Secret Service Agents.[43] A Boeing C-32 (Boeing 757) serving as Air Force Two. During the Johnson Administration, the United States Air Force acquired a Beechcraft King Air B90 which was designated VC-6A.[44] The aircraft was used to transport President Johnson between Bergstrom Air Force Base and his family ranch near Johnson City, Texas,[45] and was used at least once to transport the President to Princeton, New Jersey.[46] It was referred to as Lady Bird's airplane and later in its service life featured a basic color scheme similar to civilian aircraft.[47] When the President was aboard, the aircraft used the call sign Air Force One.[46] United Airlines is the only commercial airline to have operated Executive One, the call sign given to a civilian flight on which the U.S. President is aboard. On 26 December 1973, President Richard Nixon and his family flew as commercial passengers from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles International Airport. His staff explained that this was done to conserve fuel by not having to fly the usual Boeing 707 Air Force aircraft.[48] The President regularly flies in helicopters (call sign Marine One) operated by the U.S. Marine Corps.[49] 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.[50] On 8 March 2000, President 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.[51][52][53] On 1 May 2003, President George W. Bush flew in the co-pilot seat of a Sea Control Squadron Thirty-Five (VS-35) S-3B Viking from Naval Air Station North Island, California to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast, where Bush delivered his "Mission Accomplished" speech. During the flight, the aircraft used the call sign of "Navy One" for the first time. This aircraft is now on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.[54] In May 2009, President Barack Obama took the first lady on a date to New York City in a Gulfstream C-37B.[55] On 16 July 2010, the First Family flew to Maine for vacation in a USAF Gulfstream III.[56] When required by circumstances, the President makes domestic flights using a Boeing C-32, sometimes to allow access to smaller airports that cannot support the larger VC-25.[5

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