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    Airframe Family: Lockheed A-12 / SR-71 Blackbird
    Latest Model:SR-71A Blackbird
    Last Military Serial:61-7964 USAF
    Construction Number:2015
    Compressed ID:Lockheed SR-71A sn 61-7964 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1966

    Constructed as a SR-71A.

    11 May 1966

    First flight.

    Circa July 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-7964.

    Transferred to 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, Beale AFB, CA.

    18 January 1990

    Ferry flight.
    Departed from RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk for the last time and returned to Beale AFB, California after a four-and-a- half hour flight.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    20 March 1990

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE.
    Delivered to the museum on this date. This was the last flight of the airframe.
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    22 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Strategic Air Command Museum

    22 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Strategic Air Command Museum

    22 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Strategic Air Command Museum

    June 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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    5 August 2002


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    7 August 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    28 April 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    22 June 2015

    Loaned to Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, Ashland, NE.
    Museum name changed.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Strategic Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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