The first airplane specially built to fly a president was the “Sacred Cow,” a Douglas VC-54C Skymaster that took President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta conference in early February 1945.
The next one, a Douglas VC-118 introduced in 1947, was named “Independence,” after President Harry S. Tr…
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