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    Airframe Family: Lockheed U-2
    Latest Model:U-2C
    Last Military Serial:56-6681 USAF
    Construction Number:Article 348
    Last Civil Registration:N708NA
    Compressed ID:Lockheed U-2C sn 56-6681 USAF cn Ar...
    Latest Owner or Location:Moffett Field (NASA) Museum, Moffett Federal Airfield (south side), Mountain View, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-2A.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-6681.

    1963

    Converted to an U-2G.

    May 1964

    Michael Walker comments (17 November 2016): In May of 1964 two U-2Gs were used in Operation Fish Hawk, the only aircraft carrier launched spy mission ever. I believe this plane was one of the two since it was the only one of two that had been converted to the G model by that date.

    Converted to an U-2C.

    17 June 1971

    To National Aeronautics and Space Admin, Moffett Field, CA with new c/r N708NA.

    1976


    Photographer: Dana A.Nichols
    Notes: At Norton AFB

    29 December 1976

    Civil registration, N708NA, cancelled.

    To NASA Exploration Center, Moffett Federal Airfield, San Francisco, CA.
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    To Moffett Field (NASA) Museum, Moffett Federal Airfield (south side), Mountain View, CA.
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    January 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Moffett Field, CA

    2014


    Photographer: Jerry Clark

    18 April 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    18 April 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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