# Air Force One question

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 21, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066 "2007-04-21T14:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066/81 "2026-08-12T17:19:09Z")

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This deserve a new movie!

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### Author: ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066/82 "2026-08-12T18:00:22Z")

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Too bad it’s the summer and SNL isn’t running new shows because they could have done something with the whole airliner deception. Possibly even something good.

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### Author: ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066/83 "2026-08-12T19:19:16Z")

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I’m thinking Trump wedged into a beverage cart. A very large beverage cart. Or maybe a trash bin.

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### Author: ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066/84 "2026-08-12T21:30:24Z")

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There is a suggestion that Iran consider that forcing the POTUS to duck and hide is a bit of a win for them.

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### Author: ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066/85 "2026-08-13T07:44:31Z")

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> [@Schnitte](#):
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> TL;DR:

Your summary is not quite right.

Trump flew to Turkey on the VC-25B (Qatari1). While he was there, it was announced that he would fly home on a VC-25A (what we normally think of as AF1) for security reasons. He got on that plane, snuck off, and went to a C-32A (converted 757). Then all THREE planes flew to England where Trump snuck back onto the VC-25A, exited it, and switched to the VC-25B for the flight home.

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### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-force-one-question/401066/86 "2026-08-13T14:08:38Z")

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[Moderating]

The fact that a plane flew using the callsign “Air Force One” without the President aboard, and that a different plane flew without that callsign with the President, is relevant to this thread. Most of the other discussion of the recent incident is not. There are plenty of other threads on the subject; take all of the incidental chatter to one of those.

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