AIR FORCE ONE US PRESIDENTIAL SEAL BLUE CUSTOMIZED PRESIDENTIAL FLIGHT JACKET 44
Item History & Price
Offered for sale is this lovely and very impressive facsimile Air Force One navy blue bomber style jacket with an elasticized rib knit waistband. Custom made in all aspects unique and one of a kind. The jacket featur...es custom lettering designed for the jackets to stop them from copying. Re-creating the typeface for this jacket was very difficult. The jacket features the text Air Force One embroidered over the modern official presidential seal patch and a custom embroidered name in the exact same modified type as the Air Force One text.
The jacket is so iconic that even the Vice President has his own version of it featuring the Vice Presidential seal and over it the text Air Force Two.
The process starts with a blank US Air Force issue DSCP Wings Collection Navy Blue Windbreaker which is very hard to obtain as it is only given to Air Force personnel and only can be bought trough select Military Surplus Stores. Then we sew the official presidential seal patch to the right breast and get the jacket ready for embroidery. Embroidery starts with a digital vector graphic which features the custom name and the text Air Force One which is modified to the standards of the official jackets on AFO. The text is converted to an embroidery file which can be processed by the embroidery machine. The jacket is tightened and the text is stitched out to the jacket. And in the end we end up with the finished custom jacket. By far the most difficult part of this entire process is the modification of the text as it may take up to 2 hours to perfectly modify the existing font to match the one on original jackets.
What makes this item truly special is the superlatively well rendered embroidered, 4.1" diameter official modern Presidential seal patch that is mounted over the right breast. Richly embroidered from top quality colored silk threads, it has been custom manufactured to an 'Old-World' standard of quality and excellence seldom encountered today. Each intricate detail of the noble and historic official Presidential seal has been faithfully replicated in all respects. The fletching on the Eagle's wing, for example, is picked out in brown thread and a 3-dimensional effect is to be observed when examined at close range! Even exceptionally subtle details like the tiny talons on the claws that clutch a bundle of Arrows and an Olive branch can be clearly seen. The high artistic quality of this crest has to be viewed in person to be truly appreciated; my scans simply do not do it justice!
In 2019 President Trump gifted Prince Philip a Air Force One jacket. It is unclear if it was a blue jacket like this or a leather jacket.
The jacket also comes with an inner liner which the president and crew don't usually wear as it makes the jacket a bit bulky.
This is an issue DSCP Wings Collection Flight jacket, the same one used in the Air Force for uniforms aboard the plane. The shoulders are ingeniously pleated at the back to facilitate increased range of motion when wearing the garment. This unique and beautiful item would make a worthy addition to a discriminating collection of Presidential memorabilia as that would be its main purpose but it also can be a great substitute for a suit jacket as it looks professional and "spiffy" as former President Obama described it.