SAM 26000 - Kennedy's Air Force One(Video Updated Nov. 2018)

[@BuckeyeBrad]

Great video! Been on this plane lots of times. Being a huge JFK buff, I get lost on here.

[@roderickrayrutledge2740]

My uncle Jimmie flew Kennedy to Dallas that day. Seriously...

[@AF-hi1tg]

Did he ever speak of that day to you?

[@roderickrayrutledge2740]

@@AF-hi1tg Yes. Years later after he retired. None of the family knew what he did for the government until then. Jimmie was such a comedian. Even when he told us, we thought he was joking around. The most incredible part was that his copilot was his best friend from grade school from a tiny town in Oklahoma called Shattuck.

[@Red-rl1xx]

Great video!

[@sanjayiyer489]

Why is there no mention that SAM 26000 brought the body of LBJ? It needs to be mentioned. It's a MAJOR chapter for SAM 26000, as it brought about two major innovations to state funerals in the United States, both of which we just saw for Jimmy Carter. We also saw this during Ronald Reagan's. SAM 26000 made jets an innovation to state funerals when it carried Johnson's body to and from his state funeral in Washington. Another major innovation that was seen then that we also saw for both Reagan and Carter is the possibility that the final funeral and burial services can be completed within one day, despite taking place in different parts of the country. LBJ died on Jan. 22, 1973 and the final services took place on the same day, though in different parts of the country, on Jan. 25. When the former president was laid to rest at his ranch, retired Brig. Gen. James Cross, pilot of SAM 26000 during part of the Johnson presidency, presented the flag to Lady Bird Johnson at her request. He also escorted her during the state funeral, again, at her request, saying that she did not know Army Major General James Adamson, commanding general of the Military District of Washington (MDW)

[@ELMS]

Very good. But at 6:04 there is a clip of JFK exiting an airplane that clearly is not SAM 26000. The aircraft windows are large, rectangular and irregularly spaced. The aircraft also appears too low, and the blue stripe is wrong. If I had to guess I’d say it was a DC-6.

[@ELMS]

As well, above the blue window stripe, it doesn’t say “United States of America”.

[@wrightflyer7855]

@Lloyd Mildon: Good call. I looked this one up and discovered VC-118A S/N 53-3240 served as JFK's Air Force One until 1962, when it was replaced by SAM 26000 and is now on display at the Pima Air And Space Museum. I was born in '49 and really miss those days of big thumping radials on the ramp. They seemed almost alive, much like steam locomotives.

[@ELMS]

Wright Flyer I’m from Edmonton, Canada. Pacific Western Airlines used to fly a walk-on air shuttle (called the Chieftain Air Bus) between Edmonton and Calgary and I took it many times. They operated DC-6B’s. And you’re absolutely right. The sound of big radials was something to behold. At night if you were over the wing there would be a sheet of flame blast over the wing. And I’d be certain I was doomed. 😳😆 Nice to know I wasn’t off base about the identification and thanks for tracking that down.

[@nelsonmelamund1225]

Why are the doors removed?