- William Howard Taft was the first president to have an official White House automobile, a White Motor Company Model M seven-passenger steam-powered touring car
- Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside the United States on official business, going to Panama in 1906
- The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean was Woodrow Wilson, in December 1918, aboard the oceanliner U.S.S. George Washington
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to fly overseas in January 1943, taking three days to fly from Miami to Morocco aboard a Boeing 314 Flying Boat
- John F. Kennedy was the first president to use Air Force One for a transoceanic jet trip when he flew to Europe in 1962 aboard the modified Boeing 707
- Eleanor Roosevelt was the first First Lady to fly in an airplane in 1933, when she accompanied Amelia Earhart from D.C. to Baltimore aboard an Eastern Air Transport plane
- While the current Air Force One has the capability of refueling in midair, it has never needed to do so with the president on board
