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From: harlan@ZIGGY.UUCP (Harlan Olson)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: No favoritism in Washington Center
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 12:16:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 12:16:57 1985
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> In article <3074@sun.uucp> marcum@sun.uucp (Alan Marcum) writes:
> >		- "Washington Center, Air Force One, requesting
> >		  lower."
> >		- "Air Force One, stand by."
> >		     three minutes elapse
> >		- "Washington Center, Air Force One, requesting
> >		  lower."
> >		- "Unable."
> 
> I thought Air Force One used a different call sign when the president was
> aboard.  Some PBS program had a sequence on Air Force One a little while
> back (maybe Smithsonian World) and I'm sure it said that Air Force One went
> under a different name depending upon whether the president was aboard.
> When the president is not aboard, it still does a lot of flying but gets no
> special treatment from controllers.
> 
> J. Giles
> Los Alamos

Whenever the president is aboard aircraft it takes the designation as "one".
For example, Air Force One, Navy One, Marine One, Army One etc.  If the 
vice president is flying the designation becomes "Two", i.e. Air Force Two.
If the president is not on board but the family is the callsign becomes
Air Force One Foxtrot (AF1F).  When the aircraft assigned to the president
are flying with out the president or the vice president aboard they go by
the tail number. These numbers are in the Special Air Missions number group
(SAM). For example, S26000 is the aircraft the president generally flys.

Harlan Olson
ex-controller 
Air Force One Foxtrot (AF1F).  When the plane/s