Navy One

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

Navy One is the call sign of any United States Navy aircraft carrying the President of the United States.

There has been only one U.S. Navy aircraft to bear this designation^[1]. An S-3 Viking, assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35, transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln stationed off the coast of San Diego, California on May 1, 2003.^[2] The pilot was Commander Skip "Loose" Lussier, then the Executive Officer of VS-35, and the flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan "Wilson" Phillips^[3].

The S-3 that served as "Navy One" was retired from service and placed on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida on July 17, 2003.^[2]

A Navy aircraft carrying the Vice President is designated Navy Two.

By comparison, a U.S. Air Force plane bearing the President is called Air Force One: the callsign rotates between two or three specially-equipped commercial jetliners, formerly Boeing 707s but now Boeing 747s.

The President also uses a group of U.S. Marine Corps helicopters, which share the callsign Marine One.

[edit] See also

• Mission Accomplished

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Order 7110.65R (Air Traffic Control) (English). Federal Aviation Administration (2007-03-14). Retrieved on 2007-05-01.
• Naval Museum on the aircraft

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