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Does Airforce 1 or Marine 1 ever squawk a code?
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jd21476
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Did you mean Marine 1?
jrcox19
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Every time they fly
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AF1 is squawking 0543 right now. They are at FL270 doing 572 knots over the ground.
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I heard AF1 is so advanced that its transponder can squawk 8's and 9's. 
Will Kumley
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Its my understanding that Marine 1 flies in groups so nobody knows which is actually Marine 1. I imagine they fly as a 3 bird formation and only one squawks a code for ATC to track and communicate with.
Seanaldinho
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They do and they show up on an ATC scope as "A1" and "VM1" respectively.
One of the reasons controllers have security clearances.
One of the reasons controllers have security clearances.
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The President visits Maine and an AWACS loiters nearby, just in case it is needed.
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Fixed it.
That is correct. See it all the time when they come to NYC.
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Probably not. A1 and the others are call signs, not N numbers or other identification.
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You can see the bump at the bottom from when they turned on George.
Seanaldinho
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As long as the flightplan callsign associated with that squawk is A1 or VM1 it would correlate to that target on the scope as A1 or VM1. The same way Delta 1234 shows up as DAL1234 on a scope and on a strip. Without the flightplan in the system, the datatag the controller sees shows your squawk code (not accounting for ADSB), be it 1200 or a discrete code. If you get a discrete squawk, you're callsign - be it Delta, Air Force, Gunslinger, the N number, etc - is input and associated with the squawk code.
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Do you think they might have flown this pattern before? I wonder how many hours the crew has logged flying the figure 8's?
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Yes they squawk. Yes it shows up as either AF1 or VM1 on the scope. Technically it’s no longer A1 but AF1 ID.
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Changed in the .65 in 2009. You can see the bold black line to the left indicating a change. Before that, Air Force One used just the “A” for filing just like any other Air Force aircraft. Not that many use “Air Force” anyway. Except A1, all the Air Force aircraft that I worked in ATC used squadron call signs.
Doesn’t seem like any logic to the change. What makes no sense is the RR reverting to R for family members but yet AF stays AF.
Got to be “R2F” once while flying in the Army. 