Name That Prez: Up up and Away! This Was the First President to Fly

The President of the United States doesn't stand in line at the airport waiting to board an airplane. Nope. He has his own personal plane.

The President, of course, can fly anywhere in the world anytime he wants on Air Force One. I remember seeing Air Force One here in Sioux Falls when President Bush made a visit to town. Wow, impressive!

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But who was the first President to climb aboard an airplane and take off into the wild blue yonder?

Well, the first ex-president to fly in a plane was Theodore Roosevelt, who flew as a passenger in 1910 in one of the Wright Brothers biplanes. But that was a year or so after he left office.

As far as a sitting President, it was the other Roosevelt, Franklin. He flew in 1943.

Oh, and a 'by the way', the first President to have a pilot's license? That would be Dwight Eisenhower, who received his pilots license in November of 1939.