June 22, 2003
Not Something One Sees Every Day
I was reading in today's Los Angeles Times about the old Boeing 707 Air Force One being retired. It was moved to the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley. It was trucked over 100 miles. They removed the wings from the fuselage. Still, it would have been something to see.
From the article:
Reagan logged more miles on Air Force One — 631,640 — than any of the six other presidents who flew on it. Those included Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and both George Bushes. Burson noted that Reagan made several key trips on the plane, including historic conferences with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and history-changing summits in Geneva in 1985, Reykjavik in 1986 and Moscow in 1988.
Air Force One was an official presidential aircraft for 28 years before it was retired in 2001. Its last flight was on Sept. 8, 2001, when several dignitaries were flown from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert to the San Bernardino airport, where it was greeted by Nancy Reagan, then stored and disassembled, said library spokeswoman Melissa Giller.
Complete article here
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Posted by Valkyre at June 22, 2003 05:43 PM