SAM 26000 on display in the Presidential Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This icon has been a part of so much history, serving eight American presidents from Kennedy to Clinton. It was this aircraft that carried President Kennedy to Dallas and brought his body back to Washington, D.C. in Nov 1963. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the new president on board. The livery of the first presidential jet designed by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy remains unmatched.

President Ronald Reagan visiting West Berlin. Later preserved at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB

President Kennedy visits Berlin! Later preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB

Presidential aircraft

Callsign "SAM26000", operated by 89 MAW. Visit in connection with Bush-Gorbachev Malta Summit of December 1989.

President Reagan's second aircraft in front of my apartment

Air Force One

62-6000 brought Lyndon Johnson to Australia on the first visit to the country of a serving US president. The Pan Am 707 in the background and a TWA 707 carried support personnel and American media. Photo by Kevin Kerle.