Recently…not sure why but they have been flying under “NA” rather than AF1
If you want to track military
You have to match his schedule for day and just watch at that time to track it
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Do FlightAware block some data from AF1 it was over the UK last night whilst showing on the sky view map it couldn’t plot onto VRS as the speed and heading wouldn’t plot on skyview. VRS is linked up to show MLAT data.
It’s shown in grey so “other” data. I assume that’s the reason for not having it in VRS
I take it, it’s not possible to get ‘other data’ to show on VRS?
They are likely blocking MLAT results.
Not sure how VRS handles aircraft without position.
I second the recommendation to feed adsbexchange in addition to FA, because they do not block aircraft. Also, I filter on ICAO instead of call sign and often see AF1. There are two aircraft that can serve as AF1 so put both ICAO codes in your filter
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I’m bummed! I was out of town today when it landed in Portland - and they were gone by the time I landed there at 4pm. I would have liked to have watched it come and go.
I wasn’t even paying attention. When I heard POTUS was in town I checked Timelapse1090 and sure enough. A couple slight tweaks to the normal route to the airport. I figure I won’t post that image. 
Off he goes. This trip was the main passenger airport instead of one of the Boeing fields used in the past. A little disruptive (FedEX circling forever!), but there’s a daily big dip in air traffic here about this time, from 4:45 to 5:15pm anyway.
Local TV coverage after takeoff - these not on my ADS-B…
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