"Patty Winter" wrote in message
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I know for the movie 'Air Force One', they rented a cargo 747 and
painted it up as AF1. It caused a bit of confusion when it showed
up at various airports without POTUS and friends.

Yeah, I bet there were some puzzled people. Not least because, as I
understand it, Air Force One is not a specific aircraft, but the callsign
for an aircraft that happens to be carrying the POTUS. So this thing would
be flying all over the place under a boring old call-sign (which,
presumably, AF1 could do when the POTUS wasn't on board). Similarly, you
have lesser designations such as Air Force Two, etc, for less senior VIPs.

If that's true, wouldn't it be kinda fun if the POTUS was learning to fly?
"Ah, Washington Tower, Air Force One, Cessna 152, hangar 12 apron, request
taxi" ...

(And aren't there two 747s done out all posh, incidentally?).

D.