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    Airframe Family: Lockheed A-12 / SR-71 Blackbird
    Latest Model:M-21
    Last Military Serial:60-6940 USAF
    Construction Number:Article 134
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    1963

    Constructed as an A-12.

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 60-6940.

    Converted to a M-21.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.

    15 May 1977

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number AF0009.

    13 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    13 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    To Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
    This is the sole surviving example of the M-21 variant.
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    9 May 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: View into the cockpit at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA

    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo taken in the T.A.Wilson Great Gallery at Museum of Flight, Seattle with Drone 90-0510 on top

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


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    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
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher

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