Christopher Dean, from the RAF Waddington Heritage Centre, explains that the base was chosen because it was the “largest close airfield to Chatsworth House”.
Although the visit was kept relatively quiet, locals from the Lincoln and Waddington area remember the day Air Force One touched down in the county.
Terry Wells, from Waddington, was 12 at the time. “As I recall, he landed on a Saturday so we were not at school. On any other day we would wander about the base freely, but on that day we were not allowed because of the tightened security.
“I remember the Boeing aircraft landing and the helicopter taking off. There was also a second escort helicopter, but I wasn’t sure if that was to confuse people as to which one he was actually in.”