Kennedy and Lyndon B. The most famous photo ever taken aboard a presidential aircraft was taken aboard SAM 26000. [3][4] Hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson is sworn in just before take off for Washington. Kennedy was the first president to use SAM 26000. [5][6] Kennedy first flew on the aircraft on November 10, 1962, to attend the funeral services of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York. [7] SAM 26000 took Kennedy to Berlin (“Ich bin ein Berliner”) in June 1963;[8][9] the month before that, it set a new Washington-Moscow time record. [10][9] It was designer Raymond Loewy who, at the invitation of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, gave SAM 26000 the now-familiar Air Force One livery of blue, silver, and white. On November 22, 1963, after landing the President and First Lady at Dallas’ Love Field, SAM 26000 was the backdrop to live broadcasts of the Kennedys greeting well-wishers. [9] Later that day, after Kennedy’s assassination made Vice President Lyndon Johnson the new president, SAM 26000 carried the Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Kennedy’s body back to Washington. [3][13] To accommodate the casket four seats were removed from the passenger compartment;[3][14] Johnson took the Oath of Office (see photo) aboard SAM 26000 before takeoff. [3][15] The casket was on board because Mrs. Kennedy refused to leave her husband’s body and under no circumstances, would Johnson leave without her. As Kennedy was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, SAM 26000 flew overhead, following 50 fighter jets (20 Navy and 30 Air Force). Johnson was SAM 26000’s most frequent flyer, logging some 523,000 miles during his five years as president;[19][20] he once called it my own little plane. “[21] New seats were installed, now facing rearward toward the presidential cabin, in which was installed a spacious leather chair (dubbed “the throne)[22][23] and a crescent-shaped table which the president could raise and lower by means of a switch. Aides and guests sat on couches around the throne. Johnson flew in SAM 26000 twice to Vietnam and took tours of Asia in 1968 and 1969. About InFlight 200 Scale Diecast Airliners. InFlight 200 is a professional range of 1:200 scale model aircraft manufactured for the World’s Airlines and model collectors alike. Pioneering engineers for Inflight200 were able to manufacture a superb quality of model aircraft never seen before in the scale of 1:200. The range has high technical tampo printing, rolling undercarriage with rubber tires, spinning fan blades in the engines, antennas and with the larger aircraft types a swiveling nose wheel, leaving nothing to the imagination. The item “InFlight 200 1200 United States Air Force (USAF) Boeing B707-300 (VC-137C)” is in sale since Monday, April 13, 2020. This item is in the category “Toys & Hobbies\Diecast & Toy Vehicles\Aircraft & Spacecraft\Contemporary Manufacture”. The seller is “3jba” and is located in Erie, Colorado. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Brand: InFlight 200
- Vehicle Make: Boeing
- Aircraft Family: Boeing 707
- Scale: 1:200