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Air Force Two. Air Force Two is the air traffic control designated call sign held by any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States, but not the president. [1] [2] The term is often associated with the Boeing C-32, a modified 757 which is most commonly used as the vice president's transport.
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The Boeing C-32 is the United States Air Force designation for variants of the Boeing 757 in military service. Two variants exist, filling different parts of the military passenger transport role. The C-32A serves the Special Air Mission, providing executive transport and broad communications capabilities to senior political officials, while ...
Tail code. FF, the tail code of the USAF 1st Fighter Wing, is displayed on this F-15 Eagle. Tail codes are markings usually on the vertical stabilizer of U.S. military aircraft that help identify the aircraft's unit and/or base assignment. This is not the same as the serial number, bureau number, or aircraft registration which provide unique ...
AF Serial Number 06-6161, a C-17A Globemaster III. In the United States, all military aircraft display a serial number to identify individual aircraft. These numbers are located on the aircraft tail, so they are sometimes referred to unofficially as "tail numbers". On the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber, lacking a tail, the number appears on ...
Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 6th Weapons Squadron: Air Combat Command: United States Air Force Warfare Center: 57 WG: 13 March 1917 Nellis AFB, Nevada: F-35A: WA: 14th Weapons Squadron: Air Commandos: Air Combat Command: United States Air Force Warfare Center: 57 WG: 2 March 1942 Hurlburt Field, Florida: AC-130 CV-22
An F-16C over Iraq in 2008. An F-22A Raptor flies over Andrews Air Force Base during an airshow in 2008. An F-35A in flight. A USAF B-52 bomber. A B-1B in flight over Afghanistan. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean. An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts.
Twentieth Air Force tail markings. For a period of six months the Twentieth Air Force operated two bomber commands, each with a different method of identifying its B-29 Superfortress groups. From April 1945 forward all twenty groups, organized into five bomb wings, were assigned to XXI Bomber Command, which standardized its markings.