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    Airframe Family: Lockheed U-2
    Latest Model:U-2C
    Last Military Serial:56-6701 USAF
    Construction Number:Article 368
    Compressed ID:Lockheed U-2C sn 56-6701 USAF cn Ar...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-2A.

    March 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-6701.
    TOS at Groom Lake, NV.

    1957

    Transferred to Special Projects Branch, Air Force Research and Development Command (ARDC), Edwards AFB, CA.

    This aircraft served with the CIA and various reconnaissance wings.

    By 1966

    Transferred to Strategic Air Command.

    1966

    Converted to an U-2B.

    1968

    Converted to an U-2C.

    1969

    Assigned to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.
    Flyable storage.

    1972

    Operated by unknown unit, configured for Aviation Life Support Maintenanc (ALSS).

    By May 1975

    Transferred to 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing (SAC), RAF Wethersfield.

    1982

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1982

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
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    16 September 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the SAC Museum, Offutt AFB

    22 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the SAC Museum, Offutt AFB

    Circa 1997

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Moved to new facility while under construction.

    16 May 1998

    Placed on display with Strategic Air Command Museum, Ashland, NE.
    New museum opened.

    2001

    Loaned to Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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    25 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    22 June 2015

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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