<P> Uzbek government use a single Boeing 757 - 200 and single Boeing 767 - 300 for VIP transport . </P> <P> Typically, the Pope flies on a chartered Alitalia fixed - wing aircraft when travelling to or from more distant destinations . Traditional protocol dictates that a Pope flies to a country he is visiting on a chartered Alitalia jet and to return on a jet belonging to a flag carrier from the visited nation; this may vary when he is touring multiple nations . When Pope John Paul II visited South America in May 1988, he came to Paraguay from Peru in an AeroPerú DC - 8, but left Asunción International Airport back to Europe in a transcontinental Alitalia Boeing 747, which was brought in just hours before his farewell ceremony . Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas' longest - range aircraft at the time were Boeing 707 - 320Bs, which had to stop in Dakar, Senegal to refuel . However, he politely travelled within the country in a LAP jet, which incidentally carried the distinguished visitor's coat of arms in the forward fuselage as courtesy . Pope Benedict XVI also returned to Rome from Brazil on Alitalia . </P> <P> The call sign of a papal flight within Italy is "volo papale" ("papal flight" in Italian) followed by the number of flights the pope has made . Pope John Paul II made 104 papal flights . The pope also uses a helicopter of the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare), an Agusta Westland AW139, for short distances . There are two papal heliports, with the Vatican City Heliport being on the tiny state's western corner, and another on the southern edge of the extraterritorial papal residence of Castel Gandolfo . The former bears the official Latin designation Portus Helicopterorum . </P> <P> Inspired by a biblical verse, international flights carrying the pope use the callsign "Shepherd One". </P>

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