"Navy 1", a U.S. Navy Lockheed S-3B Viking (BuNo 159387) from sea control squadron VS-35 Blue Wolves lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on 1 May 2003. The aircraft was carrying the U.S. president George W. Bush who was the first U.S. president land on an aircraft carrier in an airplane making an arrested landing. All other presidents (including Mr. Bush) had used a helicopter. The S-3B 159387 is today preserved at the U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida (USA).
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President George W. Bush successfully traps aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on an S-3B Viking known as "NAVY 1". President Bush is the first President to trap onboard an aircraft carrier. President Bush is conducting a visit aboard USS Abraham Lincoln to address the Nation and Sailors upon their return from their record-breaking 10-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Gabriel Piper.) (RELEASED)