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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: athaker on November 10, 2008, 11:48:46 AM

Title: Air Force One-Elect?
Post by: athaker on November 10, 2008, 11:48:46 AM

Does President-Elect Obama get a cool callsign?

He's flying into DC today from Il. so listen up

(I'm pretty sure, since he apparently dropped off his kids to school before heading to the White House)

Title: Re: Air Force One-Elect?
Post by: cessna157 on November 10, 2008, 12:24:37 PM

No, he's still a civilian flying a civilian aircraft.

Title: Re: Air Force One-Elect?
Post by: rpd on November 10, 2008, 05:16:04 PM

The local news showed him boarding a chartered AAL MD-80 at DCA.

Title: Re: Air Force One-Elect?
Post by: djmodifyd on November 11, 2008, 08:33:49 PM

yes..they have descrete callsigns (that is if the ATO considers it a special use flight)
obama has been using that callsign everytime ive seen him as of late.

Title: Re: Air Force One-Elect?
Post by: PHL Approach on November 12, 2008, 08:44:18 PM

Candidates use Tyson (e.g Tyson 3, Tyson 8 ). But that's technically because they have their own paint livery. Now that he's back on a normal carrier, AAL should just be using their callsign considering that's what they'll be ID'd to on the ground.