{"id":426858,"date":"2026-05-13T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/af-1-classified-back-up-secret-aircraft-follows-president-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:00:18","slug":"air-force-ones-classified-backup-the-secret-aircraft-that-follows-the-president-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=426858","title":{"rendered":"Air Force One&#8217;s Classified Backup: The Secret Aircraft That Follows The President Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this article is a little sensational \u2014 although there are less publicized aircraft that do follow the US President everywhere, they are not completely secret. Otherwise, writing this article would not be possible. However, they are underreported, sometimes unacknowledged, and their capabilities and the extent of their functions may be classified. This article will consider two types of aircraft that tend to follow the US President: modified <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"76754\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 757s<\/span><\/span> and the E-4B Nightwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadowy modified Boeing 757s, Doomsday planes, and business jets almost always follow the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701,396,4277,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force-one","category-aircraft","category-presidential-aircraft","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426859,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426858\/revisions\/426859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}