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mahatmakanejeeves

(69,994 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:52 AM Yesterday

FAA Safety Team Notice for POTUS travel to Charlottesville VA Friday

Hat tip, Someone at the Mid-Atlantic (and beyond) MilAir 2026 group

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/mid-atlantic-and-beyond-milair-2026.495977/page-132#post-4280270

FAA Safety Team Notice for POTUS travel to Charlottesville VA Friday

VIP Movement Notification – Charlottesville, VA
Notice Number: NOTC4911
10 APR, 2026
Charlottesville, VA
30/10 NMR – SFC-17,999FT MSL
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FAA Safety Team Notice for POTUS travel to Charlottesville VA Friday (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP
Not yet seeing a TFR or NOTAM Yonnie3 Yesterday #1
I'm sure VIP movement doesn't mean just the POTUS. Yonnie3 Yesterday #2
TFR is up Yonnie3 4 hrs ago #3
Is a DC - C'ville round trip out of the range of a Marine helucopter? mahatmakanejeeves 4 hrs ago #4

Yonnie3

(19,504 posts)
1. Not yet seeing a TFR or NOTAM
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 10:18 AM
Yesterday

I guess he's not coming here to sample the wines at the Trump vineyard. Bleech!

Perhaps he's going to the secret squirrel campus (NGIC) to observe some real time action. Scuttlebutt says that they have operational functions there and not just gathering intelligence.

Hopefully he will chopper directly there and not via CHO. We see helicopter traffic there that is not showing on flight tracker web pages.

I have errands to run Friday and my route goes a few hundred yards from the airport.

Yonnie3

(19,504 posts)
2. I'm sure VIP movement doesn't mean just the POTUS.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 11:24 AM
Yesterday

The VP gets such notices. Anyone else?

The FAASTeam Notice is online with text as your post.

https://www.faasafety.gov/spans/noticeView.aspx?nid=14911

Yonnie3

(19,504 posts)
3. TFR is up
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 11:43 AM
4 hrs ago

Four circles on two centers.

One center at the Charlottesville airport of different diameters at different times

One center at the Trump Vineyard with different diameters at different times

I was wrong about the vineyard. Perhaps he's invited the Iranians for a wine tasting. More likely one of those high dollar fund raising dinners or some such.

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,994 posts)
4. Is a DC - C'ville round trip out of the range of a Marine helucopter?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 11:54 AM
4 hrs ago

I can check when I have the time.

Marine One

Marine One is the call sign of any United States Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president of the United States. As of 2024, it is most frequently applied to a presidential transport helicopter operated by Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1) "Nighthawks", most commonly as the VH-3D Sea King, or less frequently as the newer VH-92A Patriot and smaller VH-60N "White Hawk". Both helicopters are called "White Tops" because of their livery. Any Marine Corps aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States without the president has the call sign Marine Two.

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And good morning.
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