
It's an impressive and unusual image of two presidential planes next to each other on American soil, let alone a US military air base.
Russian President Vladimir Putin just stepped off a heavily modified Ilyushin Il-96, the main aircraft in the Russian presidential fleet.
President Donald Trump's militarized Boeing 747, known as Air Force One when he is on board, arrived a short time ago.
Both are four-engine, wide-body jets, although the Russian aircraft is technically a newer design.
Spotters and aircraft trackers were abuzz Friday as the Russian plane landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for a rare glimpse of the Russian presidential plane.
FlightAware shows that Putin's plane operated as "Special Detachment Flight Rossiya 539" from Magadan Airport in Russia. The flight tracking site shows that it took about four hours of flight time to arrive in Alaska.
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