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    Airframe Family: Lockheed A-12 / SR-71 Blackbird
    Latest Model:SR-71A Blackbird
    Last Military Serial:61-7951 USAF
    Construction Number:2002
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    20 October 1964

    Constructed as a SR-71A.

    5 March 1965

    First flight.

    1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-7951.

    Circa May 1971

    Loaned to NASA.
    Operated by NASA as a YF-12C with a false serial number, 60-6937, which had originally been assigned to a CIA A-12.

    Circa May 1971

    Redesignated as YF-12C.
    Operated by NASA as a YF-12C.

    Markings Applied: 60-6937
    Assigned the false serial number which had originally been assigned to a CIA A-12.

    1973


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    October 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-7951.
    Returned to the USAF.

    October 1978

    Redesignated as SR-71A.

    22 December 1978

    Last flight.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    SR-71 Online by Paul Kucher
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Robert Nichols
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