Air force one, chapter two: While the Department of Defense slowly makes plans to replace the current presidential rides (the two Boeing 747-200s that now serve as Air Force One), others are busy bringing the original one back. On March 21, the Lockheed VC-121AConstellation,fortwo years the official airplane for President Dwight Eisenhower, left the boneyard at Marana, Arizona, for restoration in Bridgewater, Virginia (left, en route). Columbine //-named after the state flower of Colorado, where First Lady Mamie Eisenhower grew up-became the first Air Force One when an airtraffic controllertem-porarily gave it the call sign to avoid confusion with a commercial flight.
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