There are no E-4A aircraft. There are only E-4B. There was never one
painted in FEMA "paint", whatever scheme that could possibly be. I was in
the group on the Joint Staff responsible for setting up the mission for
FEMA, which is a secondary tasking, when the name of the aircraft was
changed to NAOC from NEACP and I have a few dozen hours on the aircraft as a
battlestaff evaluator.

E-4B aircraft are visually very distinct from the VC-25A. There is no
satcom antennae fairing, that large "bubble" on top of the E-4B, on the
VC-25A which makes them very hard to confuse.

JB

"KenG" wrote in message
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Sorry to disappoint. I was unaware of paint changes made since I left my
flying position on them. I never saw the FEMA paint scheme. Can you
point to a picture som.... Hey wait a minute... Tarver??? Nevermind...

KenG

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It's not exactly the same, but unless you see both aircraft
side-by-side, you would swear they were the same.


No.

The E4As and E4Bs don't even have the same paint as each other, let
alone
the VC-25A.

There was even one in FEMA paint during the Clinton Administration.


KenG


Are you the Garlington spam bot?


Tex Houston wrote:

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Your in charge of flying the president to Baghdad

Your choices are a 747 or a C-17. The G5 is out since you have to

make


a


refueling stop which could blow security. Clinton flew to Kosovo in
a

C-17


How about throwing the E-4B National Airborne Operations Center

aircraft

into the mix?

Don't they have an identical paint job as AF1?


I don't think so. The blue and white paint scheme with "United States

of

America" on the two VC-25s is pretty distinctive. I haven't seen the

E-4

for many years however.

Tex