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To: A.A. Cunningham
Marine One is the designation for any Marine Corps rotary winged aircraft that is carrying the President.

Small correction: Marine One is the designation for any Marine Corps aircraft that is carrying the President. Rotary wing or fixed wing.

So if the President hops a ride aboard a USMC F/A-18D or EA-6B ... or more likely (but still pretty unlikely) one of their Cessna Citation bizjet (see pic below), that aircraft bears the "Marine One" designation.


47 posted on 10/23/2010 5:52:24 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter
Technically, yes. However, Obama would have to get seat qualified to get a hop on a Delta Hornet - which the SS wouldn't let him fly aboard, or a Prowler and considering his physical frailties, that would be highly unlikely. I doubt he'd slum it on a UC-35 either.

Has any POTUS ever flown aboard a Marine fixed wing aircraft?

55 posted on 10/26/2010 12:37:41 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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