BFI.2009 | The Museum of Flight • Boeing VC-137B "Air Force One" SAM 970 | #AWP-CHR
@ USA - Air Force One
Boeing VC-137B (707-153B)
• REG: 58-6970
• MSN: 17925
• Four JT3D-3 Pratt and Whitney jet engines
• Ranges : 4,000miles
The first presidential jet plane, a specially built Boeing 707-120, is known as SAM (Special Air Missions) 970. Delivered in 1959 to replace Eisenhower's Super-Constellation
SAM 970 has carried presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon as well as VIPs such as Nikita Khrushchev and Henry Kissinger.
By 1962, SAM 970 was replaced by a newer Boeing VC-137C. But SAM 970 remained in the presidential fleet ferrying VIPs and the Vice-President until June of 1996.
BFI.2009 | The Museum of Flight • Boeing VC-137B "Air Force One" SAM 970 | #AWP-CHR
@ USA - Air Force One
Boeing VC-137B (707-153B)
• REG: 58-6970
• MSN: 17925
• Four JT3D-3 Pratt and Whitney jet engines
• Ranges : 4,000miles
The first presidential jet plane, a specially built Boeing 707-120, is known as SAM (Special Air Missions) 970. Delivered in 1959 to replace Eisenhower's Super-Constellation
SAM 970 has carried presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon as well as VIPs such as Nikita Khrushchev and Henry Kissinger.
By 1962, SAM 970 was replaced by a newer Boeing VC-137C. But SAM 970 remained in the presidential fleet ferrying VIPs and the Vice-President until June of 1996.