There multiple different aircraft in the Presidential Fleet, IIRC 20 or so. What you are referring to is the 747 that is seen and thought of as AF1. There's two 747's one is tail number 28000 and the other is 29000.
The smaller 757's are also used often. The way it works is whichever aircraft the President is on, it becomes AF1 (so it could even be one of the small jets in the fleet) and the same with the VP, it becomes AF2. There is a similar structure for the families when they fly without the President/VP.
The bigger story has to be why they flew together on Friday? It is very rare for them both to fly together, protocol does not usually allow for this should the aircraft have a fault or crashes etc, the chain of command must be kept.
Obama and Biden did fly together once, why who knows, but it is highly abnormal.
They use a smaller plane for short trips or trips to airports that cannot handle the larger plane. Trump took the smaller plane frequently on weekend trips to his golf club in NJ. Biden was on the larger plane yesterday to Atlanta. This obsession of which plane Biden is on is getting us nowhere.
*** BIDEN DID NOT BOARD AF1 ***
Picture 1 -- Still frame from NBC News' coverage of Biden falling on the stairs of AF1
Picture 2 -- Still frame from a video I recorded of Trump getting off of AF1 at a rally in 2020
It's not the same plane ...
https://gab.com/ChrisAndDebbie/posts/105923119374759176
There multiple different aircraft in the Presidential Fleet, IIRC 20 or so. What you are referring to is the 747 that is seen and thought of as AF1. There's two 747's one is tail number 28000 and the other is 29000.
The smaller 757's are also used often. The way it works is whichever aircraft the President is on, it becomes AF1 (so it could even be one of the small jets in the fleet) and the same with the VP, it becomes AF2. There is a similar structure for the families when they fly without the President/VP.
The bigger story has to be why they flew together on Friday? It is very rare for them both to fly together, protocol does not usually allow for this should the aircraft have a fault or crashes etc, the chain of command must be kept.
Obama and Biden did fly together once, why who knows, but it is highly abnormal.
They use a smaller plane for short trips or trips to airports that cannot handle the larger plane. Trump took the smaller plane frequently on weekend trips to his golf club in NJ. Biden was on the larger plane yesterday to Atlanta. This obsession of which plane Biden is on is getting us nowhere.