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[[File:air_force_one.jpg|frame|SAM 28000, one of the two VC-25s used as Air Force One]]
 
Not the movie- that should go under ''[[Air Force One (Filmfilm)|Air Force One]]''.
 
"Air Force One" is actually the call-sign given to any US Air Force aircraft that the President of the United States currently happens to be onboard. This could range from anything from a T-38 Talon trainer jet (the President would be the back-seater...[[Independence Day|we hope]]) to [[Stargate SG -1|an interstellar battle cruiser]]. If the Commander-in-Chief is on a civilian flight (which has happened once: Nixon, while President, rode on an ordinary United Air Lines flight), it's "Executive One". "Marine One" for a Marine aircraft, "Navy One" for a naval aircraft, etc. "Marine One" is also the name given to the President's helicopter- we'll discuss that here. The Vice-President has "Air Force Two" and "Marine Two".
 
The origin of the call-sign "Air Force One" stemmed from a near-disaster. Prior to the Eisenhower presidency, the presidential plane's call-sign was number based. However, during one flight, the call-sign number happened to be identical to a nearby commercial flight's number, leading to much confusion and near mid-air collision. After the incident, the call-sign "Air Force One" was created to be unique to presidential flights.
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Precise defensive capabilities are classified, but there are almost certainly flares, a vast array of jamming equipment, and the aircraft can survive the EMP of a nuclear explosion.
 
No, it doesn't have [[Escape Fromfrom New York|an escape]] [[Air Force One (Filmfilm)|capsule]]. Probably.
 
'''Marine One'''
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'''The Regular Plane and Chopper in Fiction'''
* ''[[Air Force One (Filmfilm)|Air Force One]]'' of course.
* ''[[The West Wing]]''
* HIVE-Dreadnought shows the plane captured,it is then released to plummet to the sea with the president aboard.
 
* ''[[Twenty Four|24]]''- it's shot down in Season 4, ''[[Just Plane Wrong|by an F-117A Nighthawk]]''.
** At the end of Season 5, Jack Bauer hijacks Marine One with President Logan onboard.
* The [[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]] novel ''Eagle Strike''.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', "Yankee White".
** Another episode "Reveille" involves Ari Haswari (yes, that one) planning to shoot down Marine One with [[George W. Bush]] and Ariel Sharon on board.
* ''[[Independence Day]]'', which features the President in both his usual plane and a fighter jet.
* The [[Dale Brown]] novel "Storming Heaven" {{spoiler|Features a terrorist disguising a Boeing 747-200 as Air Force One, with the aim of crashing it into the Capitol Building. It's prevented from doing so by a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], where an F-16 pilot rams the aircraft, although considerable damage is still caused to [[Washington DC]]}}.
* In ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]'', it is hijacked and the President ejects in the [[Escape Pod]] to land in Manhattan.
* In ''[[Metal Wolf Chaos]]'', the first level has you trying to reach Air Force One... which then takes off ''[[Rule of Cool|from the Washington Monument reflection pool]]''.
* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' has a mission set aboard Air Force One. Like the movie, it has an escape pod that the real one doesn't.
* In ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', the President is evacuated to Air Force One, but one of the passengers or crew is infected, causing the plane to crash.
* ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' features an alternate reality where the Stargate program has been revealed to the world. In this reality, the President uses ''Prometheus'', Earth's first interstellar battleship, as Air Force One.
** The airplane is shot down by the Goa'uld in the alternate timeline in the episode "There But For the Grace of God".
* The main characters in ''[[My Fellow Americans]]'' take a brief helicopter ride and refer to the craft as "Marine One".
* It makes a brief appearance in the first ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' movie, when the small Decepticon sneaks aboard and breaks into the computers.
 
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