For vice-presidents of the United States, frequent trips are in the post description. Fortunately, they can travel in style.
While crossing the country and the world, the vice-president JD Vance flies on a personalized C-32 plane with an advanced communication center, a conference room and a private cabin.
The plane measures 155 feet long and can travel 5,500 naval miles without refueling. When Vance is on board, it is known as “Air Force Two”.
Take a look at the vice-president’s plane.
Any Air Force plane carrying the American vice-president is called “Air Force Two”.
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Similar to the president on board “Air Force One”, the designation of “Air Force Two” refers to any Air Force aircraft bearing the vice-president, not a specific jet or model.
Over the years, several different planes have wore the Air Force Two title, transporting vice-presidents and their staff worldwide. The most commonly used jet is a C-32, a personalized military version of a Boeing 757-200 commercial aircraft.
Vice-president is generally prohibited from flying to “Air Force One”, an airplane carrying the president.
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The president and the vice-president do not travel together for security reasons.
It is customary for presidents and vice-presidents to greet the soldiers when they embark and disembark presidential plans.
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The members of the service are required to salute the president as commander-in-chief, but not the vice-president. However, it is also usual that the troops also salute vice-presidents.
Richard Nixon was the first vice-president of traveling internationally via jet on official affairs, visiting what was then the USSR in 1959.
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Nixon, who was vice-president of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, stole a stratoliner Boeing VC-137A to visit the USSR in 1959.
From the Ford administration in 1975, this DC-9 jet stolen as an irrelevant two until 2005.
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The jet was used for the first time by the vice-president of President Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller.
It included a VIP cabin with 10 seats and a main cabin with 32 first class seats.
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The plane was withdrawn from the Bush administration in 2005 and was auctioned by the General Services Administration in 2013.
Vice-president Al Gore has decorated the VIP cabin with family photos.
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Gore worked on his speech of acceptance for the 2000 National Democratic Convention aboard the Air Force Two.
The cabin also included a clock with different time zone screens.
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The clock presented time in Washington, DC, and whatever the Air Force Two destination.
Plan C-32 updated most often used by Vice-Presidents deployed for the first time in 1998.
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With a wingspan of almost 125 feet, each engine has 41,700 pounds of static thrust, according to the Air Force.
As vice-president, Joe Biden hung a world card in his work zone of the Air Force Two.
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Biden has traveled over a million miles on Air Force Two during his time as vice-president.
Kamala Harris also celebrated birthdays on the plane.
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Harris brought cupcakes and sang “Happy Birthday” to his domestic policy advisor, Kate Childs Graham, in 2021.
The second gentleman Doug Emhoff also traveled aboard the Air Force two.
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Air Force Two is sometimes used by the First Lady and the members of the cabinet.
Emhoff completed its March Madness basketball support on Las Vegas in March 2021.
The rear of the Air Force Two contains 32 business class seats for press members.
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Vice-presidents and staff occasionally hold informal briefings with journalists known as “Press Gaggles” on the Air Force Two.
The press area has television screens that can play on cable information.
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The rear cabin also contains a kitchen, two bathrooms and cupboards.
Vice-president JD Vance has made several international trips to Air Force Two, notably in France, Germany and Greenland.
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In February, Vance visited France and Germany with his wife, Usha Vance, and their three children. Vance attended the top of the action of artificial intelligence in Paris and the Munich security conference.
In March, the vice-president and the second lady made a Pituffik Space tour, the only American military base in Greenland. Usha Vance was originally visiting historic sites and attending the Greenland national dog race during a solo trip. The visit was reduced in the midst of tensions between the United States, Greenland and Denmark while President Donald Trump has doubled his long-standing goal of acquiring Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, in the interest of national security.