Transportation of the president of the United States

In modern times, the main aircraft flown by the U.S. President are specialized jet airliners and helicopters.

[3] The former President departed Morocco on the USS Memphis cruiser, then took the Clipper back to the United States.

[10] Columbine II is the first plane to bear the call sign Air Force One, which was a designation created for carrying a sitting President.

The carriages were used by Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley.

Wary of the optics such opulence signaled in the aftermath of the Civil War, Lincoln never got the opportunity to enjoy the deluxe accommodations while alive, however it would take Lincoln on his final journey, a slow circuitous trip from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, with the remains of his son Willie in a funeral train, retracing the route of his inaugural journey in 1861.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt made extensive use of the railroad in his campaign in 1933, and traveled across the country during World War 2 aboard U.S.

[21] The Ferdinand Magellan was a Pullman Company business car pulled from charter service, armor plated, and rebuilt into living quarters and office for FDR in 1941.

The Georgia 300 is a privately owned rail car that has been used by several presidents during whistle stop campaign tours.

The last president to have a funeral train was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who made his final journey from Washington D.C. to his hometown in Abilene, Kansas, where he was laid to rest in 1969.

[26] Former President Joe Biden frequently made use of commercial Amtrak service to commute between Washington D.C. and his home in Delaware during his time as senator, and briefly campaigned via train in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

[27] During his surprise visit to Ukraine on 21 February 2023, he traveled in a revamped private carriage of the Ukrainian Railways Service dubbed 'Rail Force One'.

[28][29] From 1880 to 1977 several commissioned Navy ships served as presidential yachts, however this practice was halted during the Carter administration.