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Air Force Two. Air Force Two is the air traffic control designated call sign held by any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States, but not the president. [1] [2] The term is often associated with the Boeing C-32, a modified 757 which is most commonly used as the vice president's transport.
Since 1993, the U.S. Air Force (USAF), Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard (ANG), except Air Mobility Command (AMC) aircraft, utilize this format in all tail codes: two large letters, followed by two digits printed in a smaller text size, followed by three more digits printed in a larger text size.
The Twentieth Air Force, eventually operating 20 groups and 1,000 bombers, also adopted a tail identification system overseas. The other six numbered air forces fighting in the Pacific War also used tail markings within the various air forces both as group and squadron identifiers.
Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 9th Bomb Squadron: Bats [321] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 7 BW: 14 June 1917 Dyess AFB, Texas: B-1B [322] DY: 11th Bomb Squadron: Jiggs Squadron [citation needed] Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 2 BW: 26 June 1917 Barksdale AFB, Louisiana: B ...
AF Serial Number 06-6161, a C-17A Globemaster III. In the United States, all military aircraft display a serial number to identify individual aircraft. These numbers are located on the aircraft tail, so they are sometimes referred to unofficially as "tail numbers". On the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber, lacking a tail, the number appears on ...
Tail number: Description: Related article: 5-8208 Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2: 2009 Iranian Air Force Il-76MD Adnan 2 accident: 5-8519 Lockheed C-130E Hercules: 2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash: 5-8521 Lockheed C-130E Hercules: 1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown: 6-9221 Bell 212: 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash: 15-2280 Ilyushin Il-76MD: 2003 ...
An F-16C over Iraq in 2008. An F-22A Raptor flies over Andrews Air Force Base during an airshow in 2008. An F-35A in flight. A USAF B-52 bomber. A B-1B in flight over Afghanistan. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean. An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts.
May 2007 photo of the Boeing RB-52B-5-BO Stratofortress 52–005 with tail colour for the Yellowtails Squadron – 330th BS/93rd BW. Initially retired to Davis-Monthan AFB in February 1966, was used as a maintenance trainer at Lowry Technical Training Center until April 1982.