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Ronald Reagan

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Kansas City Center, this is Air Force One. Would you please change our call sign to SAM 27000.

Colonel Ralph Albertazzie, USAF

39,000 feet over Missouri after being informed that passenger Richard Nixon was no longer president since Gerald Ford had been sworn into office. 9 Aug 1974.

They were heading from Washington D.C. to Nixon’s home, La Casa Pacifica in San Clemente, California.

SAM 27000 was the second of two Boeing VC-137C United States Air Force aircraft that were specifically configured and maintained for the use of the President of the United States. SAM 27000 comes from 'Special Air Mission' and its serial number 72-7000. It's on display now at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

President Ronald Reagan

To the crew of Columbia after their completion of the first shuttle mission, 14 April 1981.

There’s a coincidence today. On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and an historian later said, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.” Well, today we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake’s, complete.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”

President Ronald Reagan

At 5pm eastern time on 28 January 1986, President Reagan consoled a grieving nation shocked by the space shuttle Challenger explosion by giving one of the most powerful presidential addresses of the 20th century. The original plan was to deliver his State of the Union speech that evening, instead, in a live televised speech written by Peggy Noonan, he talked flying, space, and heroes.

I have a whole High Flight page.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

President Ronald Reagan

Interview in The New York Times Magazine, 27 June 2004.

PAT25 has the aircraft in sight, request visual separation.

PAT25

Last radio transmission from PAT25, an Army Black Hawk helicopter flying down the Potomac River before mid-air crash with American Airlines Flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet turning to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 29 January 2025.

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