If they still called the plane with Trump on AF1 on the papers also when Biden was sworn, that mean that the AF1 still had the real president on. Here the proofs of what I'm saying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1Ku4gkvgE go to timer 0.48 to 1:08
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Pretend planefag here...
There are two physical VC-25 planes (airframe of a 747, with a bunch of enhancements) that are used as AF1 when POTUS needs the whole smash - tail numbers 28000 and 29000. They are sometimes not used if a 747 either can’t land at the airport or it’s uneconomical to run it.
Without doxxing myself too much, Trump came up to Allentown (airport KABE) earlier this year and I used my Kenwood radio to record the AF1 communications between the plane and KABE approach. I have them saved. Not rewarding for non planefags but it’s clear that AF1 flew into KABE and he did NOT use the VC25 because the military plane flew over my and my son-in-law’s house on the leg before their final. It wasn’t a 747 airframe. It WAS a blue and white paint job.
That said, as another poster noted there is no LAW that he uses AF1 as a callsign. Here’s a clip of Bush’s pilot and navigator describing how they obscured the plane’s ID to get him into Baghdad to visit the troops for Thanksgiving. If they did it then, they can do it now for OPSEC.
https://youtu.be/9we7Yx-z8C0
Yes I understood that they don't have to call the plane AF1 also if the Pres is on it, but what I'm saying is if there ever was a record of the plane being called AF1 when Trump (theoretically) wasn't president anymore but was on it. Thanks for the infos though.
That I doubt think could ever happen. But like I said, I’m not I’m the military and I don’t know the compendium of rules for the use of that call sign.