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Anyone watching Flightradar tonight…AirForce1 landing?

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RingLater · 12/05/2025 21:33

Expected to refuel at RAF Mildenhall.

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RingLater · 12/05/2025 22:25

notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:19

AF1 is usually one of two specially equipped 747s...haven"t seen one on any of the screensnap shots so far but I looking at a small screen

Flightradar doesn't normally show it, some of the other tracking sites such as ADS-B exchange do.

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Mmm? The one I was tracking is a 737, so maybe not that one.

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Starabella · 12/05/2025 22:25

There's actually 2 of them flying side by side!

Whenwouldyougethelp · 12/05/2025 22:27

It's such a target I would have thought secret travel? What's to stop any missile or bad actor taking it out

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notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:27

ADS-B exchange is showing a 747 (technically a VC-25A) with an appropriate tail number, no callsign displayed, eastbound over central Ireland right now.

RingLater · 12/05/2025 22:28

Starabella · 12/05/2025 22:25

There's actually 2 of them flying side by side!

They are both listed as ‘military government’.

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TerrifiedPassenger · 12/05/2025 22:29

There's a US military plane painted like AF1 landing in Brussels right now, that one?

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:38

This is the FR24 most tracked.

Anyone watching Flightradar tonight…AirForce1 landing?
ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:40

And this.

Anyone watching Flightradar tonight…AirForce1 landing?
notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:41

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:38

This is the FR24 most tracked.

That's not AF 1, but it is one of the support aircraft.

My ADS-B exchange has just crashed, actual AF1 airframe, a 747 is ahead of that, roughly over Dublin or a bit east.

notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:43

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:40

And this.

Yep, if AF1 is on the move there's usual a pack of two or three 757s or similiar following a few minutes behind.

SwedishEdith · 12/05/2025 22:44

notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:41

That's not AF 1, but it is one of the support aircraft.

My ADS-B exchange has just crashed, actual AF1 airframe, a 747 is ahead of that, roughly over Dublin or a bit east.

I can't see that. I'm under the flightpath in the UK so hope to catch a look.

Hoydenish · 12/05/2025 22:46

Picked up VC 25A on the military flight radar now

Hoydenish · 12/05/2025 22:50

Military Radar | Freedar.uk

It looks like it is the Military flight radar's site's turn to go down, though.

RareMaker · 12/05/2025 22:52

At Mildenhall now

untilido · 12/05/2025 22:53

Here!

Anyone watching Flightradar tonight…AirForce1 landing?
untilido · 12/05/2025 22:53

Urgh, image under review

B1indEye · 12/05/2025 22:53

RareMaker · 12/05/2025 22:52

At Mildenhall now

Not according to the military tracker, is there time delay?

notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:54

RareMaker · 12/05/2025 22:52

At Mildenhall now

? Source

FWIW ADS-B X has come back showing the aircraft just south west of Manchester...(as per untilido's image)

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:56

This?

Anyone watching Flightradar tonight…AirForce1 landing?
ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:57

Just over Wolverhampton?

HauntedBungalow · 12/05/2025 22:57

I've got it! Where are the accompanying planes?

B1indEye · 12/05/2025 22:58

HauntedBungalow · 12/05/2025 22:57

I've got it! Where are the accompanying planes?

Still over the Irish Sea

untilido · 12/05/2025 22:59

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:56

This?

That’s not AF1

notimagain · 12/05/2025 22:59

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 22:56

This?

Nope, that's a Bombardier biz jet..

I'm afraid there's no point searching for it on Flightradar, AF1 is one of the aircraft they have chosen to supress.

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 12/05/2025 23:00

All three here?

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