While staying at the Family Campground on Wright Patterson Air Force Base I spent three days poking around the National Museum of the Air Force.
The museum is in four buildings and has approximately 1 million square feet of exhibit space to display their collection of over 360 air and spacecraft!!!!!
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| Early Years Gallery |
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| A B52 indoors!!! Wingspan 185 feet. |
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| Apollo 15 Command Module |
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| Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Car |
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| North American F-86H Sabre showing the guts of a fighter plane. |
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| ITS A KITE!!! Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Sandpiper |
There are nine Presidential aircraft including Columbine III. Way back in ______ while in Bridgewater, Virginia we toured Columbine II which is owned by Dynamic Aviation and is the only presidential aircraft ever sold to a private party!!!!!!!
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| Columbine III |
As a recap Columbine II is a Lockheed VC-121A-LO Constellation and was the first aircraft that used the Air Force One callsign and the
Columbine II was the first plane to bear the call sign Air Force One. This designation for the U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the incumbent president was established after an incident in 1953, when Eastern Air Lines 8610, a commercial flight, crossed paths with Air Force 8610, which was carrying President Eisenhower.
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