Subj : Re: Used Boeing 747-8s are converted to busi
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Aviation HQ
Date : Sun Oct 19 2025 22:01:24

KW> I would love to be able to walk through a (declassified) VC25 in a
KW> museum somewhere.
 
A declassified VC25A is not for anytime real soon. And the question remains where they will end up (if they are not designated some other tasks, remember low miles and low number of cycles). Most likely Donald Trump will want one for his presidential library though a disused and parked 747 still costs a fortune to maintain.
 
At present there are 3 former Presidential 707s that can be visited.
 
VC-137B SAM 970, which was used as Air Force One from 1959 to 1962 and remained in the presidential fleet until 1996. 
The Museum of Flight (Seattle, Washington
 
VC-137C SAM 26000, the first jet built specifically for presidential airlift. It served eight presidents and is displayed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (Dayton, Ohio). This is the aircraft which carried the casket with the remains of JFK from Dallas back to Washington Nov.22 1963
 
VC-137C SAM 27000, the other famous 707, which served presidents from Nixon to G.W. Bush. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Simi Valley, California). Initially this plane was on display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library at Yorba Linda in California.

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