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    Airframe Family: Lockheed A-12 / SR-71 Blackbird
    Latest Model:A-12
    Last Military Serial:60-6938 USAF
    Construction Number:Article 132
    Compressed ID:Lockheed A-12 sn 60-6938 USAF cn Ar...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-12.

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 60-6938.

    Circa 1963

    Transferred to Central Intelligence Agency, Groom Lake, NV.
    With deployments to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.

    Made 197 flights with 369.9 flight hours.

    15 April 1977

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number AF0008.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By April 1992

    Loaned to USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    9 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    26 September 2023


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
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