Daily Plane Post 2/5!
✈️ Planes ✈️
Daily finds:
- One of the 'small' AF1s is up taking Biden to Delaware
- Someone snuck into Joint Base Andrews and 'boarded some planes'
- Plane commonly used as AF2 or for high level cabinet members is headed across the pond after a stop in DC via u/grooveinspired
- There has been an unusual increase in military traffic over the last two weeks both foreign and domestic.
- The nuclear EMP defense capable doomsday plane is doing some moving, which isn't unusual. However it appears to have made a recent stop at Andrews (DC) which is not often on its travel route.
- Gitmo flights via - u/haveyoulostyourmind From u/MakeWorldGreatAgain Europe:
- Norwegian electronic intel collection/disrupt plane doing rounds: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=478121
- U.S. F35 from dutch AFB: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=af351f
- U.S. tanker did the Nato spyplane refueling again: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac837e,4d03c3 USA:
- Two E-8C Joint STARS in the air: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae1492,ae1496
- E-6B Mercury over east coast: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae041c
- SAM689 (98-0002): https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfeb8 General info:
- A SAM flight is a Special Air Mission meaning a high level official is on the plane
- AF1 alternates between 2 different flights reg number: 82-8000 or 92-9000, but they may be flying a test flight if they aren't putting up the AF1 callsign.
- The callsign "AF1" does not need to be used to mean POTUS is onboard, they may use a different one for security
- VENUS indicates a training mission Side note: if anyone is a front end dev or knows react/vue we need you for a project. Happy flying!
Let's get some facts straight.
"2 main planes are used for AF1, but the callsign has to be "AF1" to mean Biden is on."
The President can be on any Air Force plane and they MAY use the call sign AF1
The president can be on an Air Force plane w/o using "AF1". happens a lot for security etc...
The call sign AF1 is not mandatory for a president aboard any Air Force plane.
Don't come in here and be rude. We're here to look at planes and have fun. I love people adding their opinions or information because we can always learn something new and that's why I put up the "general info".
I tried to be clearer further down the post about AF1 but I will edit it to hopefully come across more readable. I agree that sentence was muddy at best.
Sorry not trying to be rude, just factually correct with information to share.
I apologize if you felt it was rude, I try to be too the point with out to much rhetoric