Navy One
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Navy One is the call sign
Call sign
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 of any United States Navy
United States Navy
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 aircraft carrying the President of the United States
President of the United States
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. There has only been one such aircraft: an S-3 Viking
S-3 Viking
The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-seat twin-engine jet aircraft that was used by the U.S. Navy to identify, track, and destroy enemy submarines. In the late 1990s, the S-3B's mission focus shifted to surface warfare and aerial refueling. The Viking also provided electronic warfare and surface...

, BuNo 159387, assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35
VS-35
VS-35, Sea Control Squadron 35, known as the Blue Wolves was a carrier-based United States Navy squadron based out of Naval Air Station North Island in California. The squadron flew the Lockheed Lockheed S-3B Viking and their mission was mining, undersea and surface warfare, electronic...

, which transported President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
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 to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
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 off the coast of San Diego, California
San Diego, California
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 on May 1, 2003. The pilot was Commander Skip Lussier, then VS-35's executive officer; and the flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan Phillips.

That S-3 was retired from service and placed on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation
National Museum of Naval Aviation
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 in Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola, Florida
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 on July 17, 2003.

A Navy aircraft carrying the Vice President
Vice President of the United States
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 is designated Navy Two. A VR-48, homeported at NAF Washington DC (Andrews AFB), carried Vice President Mondale to and from Lake Placid
Lake Placid
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, NY to watch the 1980 Olympic
1980 Winter Olympics
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hockey gold medal game. The aircraft was a VC-131H, Convair 580, a turbo prop version of the reciprocating engine aircraft.

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