Air Force One sighting, for those of you who care. [View all]

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I live in Alexandria, Virginia, some eight miles due west of Joint Base Andrews.

I ran errands at home all day long today. I quit that at 4:45 and headed off on my bicycle to pick up the weekly newspapers and grab some food at the Aldi. At 5:30, I heard a plane that is not one of the usual planes. It was a VC-25 headed west on departure from Joint Base Andrews. Some ten minutes later, I heard the same sound and looked up. Again I saw a VC-25 headed west on departure from Andrews. According to Trump's schedule, he was scheduled to depart Andrews at 5:20. I don't think I saw the same VC-25 twice. It was at much too high an altitude to circle DC for the sightseeing loop. I think I saw two different planes. I suppose Pence was in the second one, or it was being used to haul limos and whatnot. Maybe golf carts; I don't know.

Does Flightaware show Air Force One trips? The tail numbers for the two planes are 28000 and 29000, without an "N."

I see those planes often enough around here that it's not exciting, but it is noteworthy.

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Apparently Flightaware does not track them. The schedule lists Ellsworth AFB as the destination, not Rapid City Regional, which is where Cary Grant, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau, and Eva Marie Saint were going when they visited Mount Rushmore.

https://flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=KADW&destination=KRCA