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President-elect Barack Obama ended his post-election interregnum in his hometown and headed to Washington to await his inauguration on Jan. 20, flying for the first time on one of the Air Force planes used to ferry presidents and other top government officials.
The Boeing 757-200 airplane bore the distinctive blue-and-white colors and the words “United States of America” of the familiar Air Force One, though any plane from the Air Force’s SAM fleet — for Special Air Mission — is Air Force One only if the president is aboard, and for 16 days that remains George W. Bush.
Even so, Mr. Obama’s flight on one of the fleet’s vehicles signified his status as president-in-waiting en route to his swearing-in. Aides who arrived at the plane ahead of Mr. Obama, including the senior adviser David Axelrod and the press secretary Robert Gibbs, were plainly excited by the privilege of being aboard one of the famous planes for the first time.
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