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Air Force One
noun
one of several specially equipped and fitted jet airliners maintained by the Air Force for use by the president of the U.S. and designated Air Force One when carrying the president.
Example Sentences
As The New York Times reported last month, that free Boeing 747 requires a costly, lengthy and classified overhaul if it is ever to be used as Air Force One — which may explain a $934 million transfer from the Pentagon’s top-secret “black budget.”
And it would be a remarkable feat were this work on the public dime to be completed fast enough for it to be used for long as a mobile, airborne White House; experts told NPR “it would take years” to bring up to spec of an Air Force One.
The president spilled his own political blood on Air Force One during a gaggle on Tuesday.
The US president was speaking to journalists on Air Force One following the visit where he met Scotland's current first minister John Swinney.
He then departed for the US on Air Force One.
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