Former Air Force One relocating from SBIA to Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley By JAMIE McCLINTOCK, Staff Writer Former President Ronald Reagan's mothballed Air Force One plane is scheduled to be moved June 20 from San Bernardino to his Simi Valley presidential library amid tight security because of fears of potential terrorist threats, officials have confirmed. The former president's Boeing 707 plane, now housed in a hanger at San Bernardino International Airport, will be escorted by the California Highway Patrol and transported along several Southern California freeways. Deborah Harris, a spokeswoman for Caltrans, said on Wednesday that permits were issued to a Norco trucking company for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum to transport to Simi Valley early this morning two smaller pieces of the 40th president's jet. The bulk of the retired presidential aircraft, including its fuselage and wings, are scheduled to be transported later this month by South El Monte-based Coast Machinery Movers, said Roger Cosgrove, a company vice president. The wings will be transported by trailer, and a specially-built transport vehicle will move the fuselage. Between 10 to 15 company employees will help move the bulk of the plane. Coast Machinery Movers anticipates helping The Boeing Co. to reconstruct the plane once it reaches Simi Valley. The transport should take about eight hours. It will move west along Interstate 10 and take a turn north onto Interstate 15, then west along the the Interstate 210 extension, continuing west on I-210 to Highway 118 - also known as the Ronald Reagan Freeway - to the library site. The entire reassembled aircraft, which also flew Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, will become a permanent exhibit in 2004, said Mark Burson, executive director of the Simi Valley-based Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Mas Site: www.tntisland.com/tntrecords/mas2003/ Site of the Week: http://www.carib-link.net/naparima/naps.html TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************