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Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Former Air Force One to stay at Ohio museum

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – There will be no Air Force One for the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.

The Austin American-Statesman reports U.S. Air Force officials have assured that the converted Boeing 707 where Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president in 1963 in Dallas will remain in Ohio.

The jet, with the military designation VC-137C, is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.

The assurances were conveyed in letters released Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

The LBJ Foundation had raised millions of dollars in pledges and planned to build a pavilion by the LBJ Presidential Library to house the jet flown by U.S. presidents flew from 1962 until 1990.

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Information from: Austin American-Statesman, http://www.statesman.com

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Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.