Marine One
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Marine Corp helicopters used to transport U.S. President
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- call sign
- Operator
- United States Marine Corps
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Marine One Whitehouse.jpg
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- Commons category
- Marine One
- Commons gallery
- Marine One
- service entry
- 1957-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
VH-3D Marine One departing from the White House in 2019. Marine One is the call sign of any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president of the United States. As of 2024, it is most frequently applied to a presidential transport helicopter operated by Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1) "Nighthawks", most commonly as the VH-3D Sea King, or less frequently as the newer VH-92A Patriot and smaller VH-60N "White Hawk". Both helicopters are called "White Tops" because of their livery. Any Marine Corps aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States without the president has the call sign Marine Two.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marine One” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.