Navy One

Navy One
Navy One landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln with President George W. Bush

S-3B Viking "Navy One" at the National Naval Aviation Museum.

Navy One is the call sign of any United States Navy aircraft carrying the President of the United States.^[1] There has only been one such aircraft:^[2] an S-3 Viking, BuNo 159387, assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35, which transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, California on May 1, 2003.^[3] The pilot was Commander Skip Lussier, then VS-35's executive officer; and the flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan Phillips.^[4]

That S-3 was retired from service and placed on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida on July 17, 2003.^[3]

A Navy aircraft carrying the Vice President is designated Navy Two. A VR-48, homeported at NAF Washington DC (Andrews AFB), carried Vice President Mondale to and from Lake Placid, NY to watch the 1980 Olympic hockey gold medal game. The aircraft was a VC-131H, Convair 580, a turbo prop version of the reciprocating engine aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• 2003 Mission Accomplished speech
• President of the United States

References

Notes

Further reading

• "Order 7110.65R (Air Traffic Control)" (in English). Federal Aviation Administration. 2007-03-14. http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/ATC/atc0204.html. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• Naval Museum on the aircraft

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