Former President Trump’s plane was recently parked next to a Russian plane at a D.C.-area airport. But we can’t VERIFY if the passengers interacted with each other.After the presidential debate against Joe Biden on June 27, a photo connected to Donald Trump went viral online. But the photo wasn’t of the former president. It was a photo of his plane.
Former President Donald Trump’s “Trump Force One” plane was parked at Washington Dulles International Airport at various times from June 28 to June 30. During that time, his plane was parked next to a Russian embassy plane and a, VERIFY confirmed. Trump’s plane overlapped with the Russian plane at IAD for a total of about 14 hours, and all three planes overlapped for a total of about 7.5 hours.
Andrew Leyden, a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C., took the photos of the planes sitting next to each other at IAD.Leyden said the planes were parked in a secure area known as Apron W at IAD. The location is marked on this “From a planespotters perspective this was just an interesting photo opportunity,” Leyden told VERIFY. A planespotter is someone whose hobby is aircraft spotting.