<P> On 11 October 1910 , Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an aircraft , an early Wright Flyer from Kinloch Field near St. Louis , Missouri . He was no longer in office at the time , having been succeeded by William Howard Taft . The record - making occasion was a brief overflight of the crowd at a county fair but was nonetheless the beginning of presidential air travel . </P>
<P> On 11 October 1910 , Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an aircraft , an early Wright Flyer from Kinloch Field near St. Louis , Missouri . He was no longer in office at the time , having been succeeded by William Howard Taft . The record - making occasion was a brief overflight of the crowd at a county fair but was nonetheless the beginning of presidential air travel . </P>
first us president to fly in an airplane
first us president to fly in an airplane
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt