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First Air Force One Wasting Away in Desert
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01.05.2015
In December 1953, an airplane named the "Columbine II" was on a flight over New York City, identified by air traffic controllers simply as "Air Force 8610." With President Eisenhower on board, it nearly collided mid-air with a commercial airliner also flight-numbered 8610. The near-tragedy prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to designate a call sign for any aircraft that the president of the United States is aboard. The Columbine II became the first Air Force One.
Today it sits on a patch of desert land, where grass struggles and gopher holes dot the arid ground -- baking. And the owner of a Virginia aviation company wants to fly it home.
"It's an airplane with an incredible amount of history," Karl Stoltzfus, the chairman of Bridgewater, Virginia-based Dynamic Aviation said. "At the end of the day it's an airplane that should be preserved for the public to appreciate."
Today it sits on a patch of desert land, where grass struggles and gopher holes dot the arid ground -- baking. And the owner of a Virginia aviation company wants to fly it home.
"It's an airplane with an incredible amount of history," Karl Stoltzfus, the chairman of Bridgewater, Virginia-based Dynamic Aviation said. "At the end of the day it's an airplane that should be preserved for the public to appreciate."
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