Air Force One Lands At JFK - April 6th, around 4:50PM ET

[jrob1390]

Just casually listening to the JFK Tower and Air Force One comes in for a landing. The airport held off all departures for about 10 minutes. 1:30 in the audio Air Force One calls in for landing then another pilot asks if he can turn his airline so his passengers can get a good view of Obama coming in.

[Murphyslaw4267]

Great clip, do you have the rest of the recording?

[andrej]

Thanks for sharing! It is so odd to have radio silence for relatively (to KJFK at least, given day & time) long time. 

[jrob1390]

Here's the entire half hour.

[squigish]

It's unusual that they were using "Air Force One," and not "Air Force One Heavy". 

Does anybody know for sure that it was the VC-25 (747)?  Perhaps they were using one of the smaller jets.

[SirIsaac726]

It's unusual that they were using "Air Force One," and not "Air Force One Heavy". 

Does anybody know for sure that it was the VC-25 (747)?  Perhaps they were using one of the smaller jets.

I don't recall them every appending heavy...  (Perhaps they do and I just don't remember.)

[Lost around KLAW]

I don't recall them every appending heavy...  (Perhaps they do and I just don't remember.)
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I have never heard them append heavy onto Air Force 1 in either all the feeds I've listened to, nor watching shows that have ever had it on there.

[joeyb747]

I don't recall ever hearing "Air Force One Heavy" either...

[rpd]

We have gone through this before....Air Force one is never referred to as heavy regardless of the type aircraft.

[Lost around KLAW]

We have gone through this before....Air Force one is never referred to as heavy regardless of the type aircraft.

I thought I had read this before, but a refresher never hurts.