The piston-engined, propellor-driven Columbine III retired from the Air Force in 1966. By then, it had already been seven years since Eisenhower turned to a Boeing 707 Stratoliner nicknamed ...

Here's how the design of Air Force One has changed through the years. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to travel on a jet aircraft in 1959. Eisenhower's Boeing 707 ...