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Summary

Description "Navy 1", a U.S. Navy Lockheed S-3B Viking (BuNo 159387) from sea control squadron VS-35 Blue Wolves lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on 1 May 2003. The aircraft was carrying the U.S. president George W. Bush who was the first U.S. president land on an aircraft carrier in an airplane making an arrested landing. All other presidents (including Mr. Bush) had used a helicopter. The S-3B 159387 is today preserved at the U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida (USA).
Date
Source U.S. Navy photo [1] 030501-N-6020P-019 [2]
Author Photographer's Mate Airman Gabriel Piper, USN

Licensing

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This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy , taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , it is in the public domain in the United States.