Trivia

The replica of Air Force One cost $250,000. The Boeing 747s seen in a few scenes are in fact the VC-25 (SAM 28000 and 29000) which entered service in 1990 replacing the VC-137C SAM 27000 (based on a Boeing 707-320); at the time of this movie's release, SAM 27000 was used as a back-up aircraft until it was officially retired in 2001, where it is on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. A scene in this movie featured a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy which transported the Presidential Motorcade vehicle fleet (the Reagan-era Cadillac Fleetwood (which is a replica of the real Presidential limo used since the mid-1980s with a third brake light) is seen in the C-17 which was used as a back-up Presidential state car at the time of the Clinton Administration, it is also housed at the Reagan Presidential Library). Executive producer and director Wolfgang Petersen did actually enter the real-life Boeing VC-25 where he worked with the art department to create the sets for Air Force One (1997), using what he has seen inside the real aircraft. It was one of two movies Petersen did with the involvement of the U.S. Secret Service. See more