[csmkersh]

 

[stand watie]

csmkersh,

I wonder how much it would cost to buy/restore the Connie??

yours, sw

 

[Charlie Petty]

Thanks Top

FWIW my first commercial airline flight was aboard an Eastern constellation to San Antonio when I joined the USAF.

 

[Diamondback]

Actually, the role if not the name was first occupied full-time with FDR's VC-54 (Douglas DC-4 IIRC) "Sacred Cow." (The part-timer previously was Dixie Clipper, one of Pan Am's Boeing 314s.) Truman had a VC-118 (DC-6), the Independence, and then Ike had several Connies named Columbine (if memory serves the one at NMUSAF is C-III).

Apologies for any glitches, it's been a long and annoying (seriously, it's the kind where I'm damn glad I'm a guy because if I had to fight with PMS on top of EES*, somebody might get hurt) day, and I'm typing half-fatigued relying on childhood memories of the USAFM Presidential hangar.
*Everybody Else's S---.

 

[csmkersh]

The Official History

Air Force One - White House Museum

 

[CaptainGyro]

The article CSM Kersh links mentions Columbine II and III and two Aero Commanders. A footnote that may interest some is that the Aero Commanders ended up as the jump planes for the Air Force Academy. I jumped out of them a few times.

I don't think Ike ever did.

 

[bearcat6]

Thanks Top

FWIW my first commercial airline flight was aboard an Eastern constellation to San Antonio when I joined the USAF.

My first flight was also aboard a Connie from KC, Mo to Indianapolis Indiana. My next flight after that was from K-14 in Korea to Tachikawa air base in Japan for R&R. The aircraft was a C-124 Globemaster, big hummer.