Air Force One Landing & Departing BUR (VC-137C)

Upconverted to 720p HD! Not too long after the Northridge Earthquake on January 17, 1994 here in SoCal, Air Force One carrying President Bill Clinton is seen touching down and departing later that day after surveying the damage.

Video thumbnail photo courtesy of Ralf Manteufel and used with his kind permission.

The amazing original photo by Ralf is on Airliners.net, check it out here:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Boeing-VC-137C-(707-353B)/1355962/L/...

Shot by my friend Craig Pilkington (Aviation Media ©).

Edited / uploaded by me with permission from Aviation Media ©

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[Theluiscalderon86]

This is SAM 26000 this is the plane that now sits on the Reagan Presidential Library in California. It was used from Kennedy to G.W. Bush.

[RyanBomar]

@Theluiscalderon86, you've got it backwards. SAM 26000 is at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). SAM 27000 is located at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

[adelgado75]

President Obama will not be flown on one of these when he leaves office in 2012. Instead it will be a smaller jet plane.

[RyanBomar]

@adelgado75, SAM 26000 was in service from 1962 to 1998 (serving Kennedy to Clinton), so whether he's re-elected or not, he will not be flying in this classic.

[Drpepperman1885]

Quick question: where the the presidential seals on the sides of the aircraft? and brilliantly shot, good job.

[RyanBomar]

@Drpepperman1885 thanks so much! I believe that 26000 was primarily used as Air Force One up until a certain point (possibly the Reagan era) and then 27000 became primary, making 26000 a backup and a VIP transport aircraft. Also as @Redeagle52000 points out, the 747's (VC-25A's) were introduced in 1990, during the Presidency of Bush Sr. This video was taken four years after the VC-25A's were made the primary aircraft, this may have been the last time that 26000 served as Air Force One.

[Theluiscalderon86]

@RyanBomar Haha thnx, so the plane shown in this video is the one that took president Kennedy to Dallas right?

[microdubber]

A beautiful aircraft! I saw her (or her twin) take off from Manchester NH in 1994 when Bill Clinton came to visit. I was impressed at the sight!

Probably these aircraft were/are maintained as "better than new"!

[2468HOTROD]

@RyanBomar I lived in Burbank during this time, on Clybourn Ave just south of Magnolia Blvd. Me and some friends were outside that evening on our driveway,, when all of a sudden this big Boeing 707 comes screaming overhead, having just taken off from Burbank airport. We new it was Air Force One carrying Bill Clinton back to Washington, as he was there checking out the damage from the Northridge earthquake. I remember the sounds of those powerful engines.

[Redeagle52000]

@Redeagle52000 973 and 874, unlike 970--972, were both B707-300Bs (like SAM 26000 and SAM 27000), and weren't put into service until the mid-to-late 1980s. They were also both used, unlike any of the other aircraft purchased by the 89th AW. Can't recall if it was the 973 or 974 that became the "ultimate Air Force Two" replacing 970 for that once it was finished up, due to more advanced comms and it's llarger capacity & range...I think there's info on one of these posted on the Reagan AF1 site?

[peepintom2]

@Redeagle52000 I dont remember a "SAM 973 or 974" in the 89th SAM fleet. Which type was it? I do remember 970, 971,&972 because my dad was an instructor pilot on them in the 89th for 8 years.

[Redeagle52000]

INFO: For those interested, there are a LOT of YouTube videos of this plane preserved in the "Air Force Two" scheme (as shown in the video here) at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH. But, I see that like that SAM 27000 at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA, the plane above, SAM 26000, has finally been beautifully repainted back into the full-blown AIR FORCE ONE Scheme, COMPLETE with Presidential Seals on the flanks!!! I should have posted a link-interesting to compare.