Crowds lined the streets of Phoenix on Thursday to say their last farewell to their longtime senator, John McCain, who died on Saturday.
And after his memorial service at the North Phoenix Baptist Church, where he was eulogized by former Vice President Joe Biden, McCain's body left Arizona for the last time, arriving on a U.S. military plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday night.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis was at Andrews to greet the body, along with widow Cindy McCain and members of the McCain family.
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A group of McCain's Senate friends also traveled to Andrews to watch McCain arrive in Washington for the last time.
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McCain will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Friday — only the 31st American accorded that honor — before his funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Saturday and a private burial ceremony on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.
