Air transports of heads of state and government

[1] In 1919, during Paris Peace Conference, senior British politicians including Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Commons Bonar Law used several Airco DH.4 planes for the cross-Channel trips.

During World War II, Roosevelt traveled on the Dixie Clipper, a Pan Am-crewed Boeing 314 flying boat, to the 1943 Casablanca Conference in Morocco.

This aircraft, tail number 41-24159, was re-modified in 1943 for use as a presidential VIP transport, the Guess Where II, intended to carry President Franklin D. Roosevelt on international trips.

Due to the Gabonese government failing to pay US$8 million for cabin outfitting, it was impounded at Orly Airport in February 2015 before returning to service two months later.

[citation needed] The government does not have its own VIP aircraft; however, recently, the president was spotted using a Ghanaian Dassault Falcon 900 and an Ivory Coast Gulfstream for foreign trips.

[citation needed] The government currently charters planes from RwandAir and Kenya Airways, due to their respective countries' having good relations with South Sudan.

The aircraft was designed to meet the minimum safety and security requirements of Indonesia's VVIP air transportation,[50] and includes a modest self-defense system.

[citation needed] The Japan Air Self-Defense Force operates two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft for use by the Prime Minister, the Emperor, Empress, and other members of the Imperial Family.

Malaysia's Prime Minister and Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Ruling Monarch) travel aboard aircraft operated by the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

The Andorran government does not operate any official aircraft, and the country does not even have an airport other than a small one near its border with Spain; however, former Prime Minister Antoni Martí once flew to a summit on a Spanish Air Force Boeing 707.

[citation needed] There were plans in the late 1980s to acquire a BAe 146-100STA,[80] which was capable of being converted into a VIP configuration; however, the already painted and registered aircraft was never flown to Austria, as the deal had to be cancelled due to political pressure which led to tensions within the Austrian Government.

Pilots of the Croatian Air Force fly a low-visibility grey VIP-configured Challenger CL-604 9A-CRO business-jet, acquired in August 1997 to be used by the president, Government and Parliament officials, and other users upon the approval of the prime minister, especially in the case of flights for the transportation of organs or seriously injured persons.

A Dassault Falcon 900 had a range of technical problems culminating in an accident that killed the deputy minister of foreign affairs Giannos Kranidiotis and five other people due to severe in-flight pitch oscillations 20 minutes before landing at Bucharest on 9 September 1999.

[92] Under executive order 2954/28-8-12, the Greek government bestowed the 30-seat Embraer to the Hellenic Air Force to be used for pilot training, patient airlift and organ transplant transportation.

The Slovenian Armed Forces operate a Dassault Falcon 2000 EX state registration number: L1-01 (MSN: 15) for VIP transport, primarily of the President, Prime Minister, and members of the Government.

However, following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine military hostilities in 2022, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy opted to use an assortment of different transport aircraft offered by NATO-members states over the Ukrainian state-owned A319 for international visits, ostensibly for security reasons.

Typically, the Pope flies on a chartered ITA Airways fixed-wing aircraft when travelling to or from more distant destinations and making pastoral and state visits to a country.

When Pope John Paul II visited South America in May 1988, he travelled to Paraguay from Peru in an AeroPerú DC-8, but left Asunción International Airport back to Europe in a transcontinental Alitalia Boeing 747, which was brought in just hours before his farewell ceremony.

Until the early 2010s, the supreme leader, the president and other high-ranking government officials of Iran were still using the aged but famous Shahin, a special VIP designed Boeing 707 which was ordered and purchased by the Shah in the 1970s.

Another VIP airliner, an Airbus A321 which was purchased during the 1990s, is also used on medium range trips of high officials such as the Foreign Minister, the Speaker of Parliament and the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

[137] In the early years of Israel's existence, prime minister David Ben-Gurion travelled using military aircraft belonging to the Israeli Air Force (IAF), such as the Douglas DC-3.

[137] Nonetheless, this practice has been criticized for its annual incurrence of high costs stemming from leasing and transportation, in addition to the planes' lack of secure communication facilities.

All planes fly under the callsign "OMAN" or "ORF The government-owned carrier Qatar Amiri Flight is used to transport royal and other VIP government personnel.

The Airbus A340-500 was purchased from the Tunisian government after President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who ordered it to replace a Boeing BBJ, was ousted.

The Boeing 777 in the fleet has also, in the past, been used by the Jordanian royal family for trips overseas; if this happens then any "UNITED ARAB EMIRATES" titles are removed from the fuselage of the plane to avoid confusion.

[citation needed] In March 2015, the Boeing 747SP was damaged by gunfire during a militia attack at Aden International Airport, and a subsequent blaze destroyed the aircraft completely.

001, is operated in a VIP configuration and charged with flying the monarch, other members of the Royal Family, the governor general, the prime minister, and other high-ranking government officials and foreign dignitaries.

Ecuador had a Dassault Falcon 7X and an Embraer Legacy 600 for presidential long and short range transport respectively, both acquired in recent years by Rafael Correa's government.

In 2021, president Guillermo Lasso ordered the retirement and sale of the presidential plane as part of a decree to "rationalize public spending and balance the national budget by selling unproductive assets whose conservation would be inefficient or unnecessary".

In 2019, a Cessna Citation Sovereign donated by the Taiwanese government was placed in service with the Paraguayan Air Force (FAP) as a VIP and presidential aircraft.