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 Museum of Naval Aviation

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.

See also

• President of the United States#Compensation
• 2003 Mission Accomplished speech

References

Notes

1. ^ "Order 7110.65R (Air Traffic Control) §2-4-20 ¶7". Federal Aviation Administration. 2007-03-14. http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/ATC/atc0204.html. Retrieved 2007-08-27. 
2. ^ Navy One Retired
3. ^ ^{a b} Donald, David: Warplanes of the Fleet, pages 168, 171. AIRtime Publishing Inc, 2004. ISBN 1-880588-81-1
4. ^ President Bush's Pilot

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