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    When FDR flew in an airplane, the first to do so as president, what was the plane's call sign?

    Question #109029. Asked by dac1964. (Sep 21 09 6:13 PM)


    BRY2K

    		Presidential air transport began in 1944 when a C-54 Skymaster -- the "Sacred Cow" -- was put into service for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

    http://www.usaf.com/aircraft/vc25.htm

    Sep 21 09, 6:54 PM
    Datsmeharse

    		Pan Am's Boeing B314 Dixie Clipper, NC-18605, carried Roosevelt to the Cabsablanca Conference in 1943.
    http://columbia.washingtonhistory.org/magazine/articles/2003/0203/0203-a4.aspx

    Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to fly in an airplane, in 1910, after he left office.

    Sep 21 09, 7:11 PM

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