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Discover the locations of all of the remaining aircraft in the Blackbird family. From the beginnings of the A-12 in the early 60's, thru the YF-12's, and finally the remaining SR-71's
History Museum · Hell's Kitchen · 348 tips and reviews
Chris G: Home to A-12 serial number 60-6925. This Blackbird was the least flown of the 15 that were built. Only logged a total flight time of just under 180 total hours.
700 Exposition Park Drive (at Figueroa St), Los Angeles, CA
Science Museum · South LA · 156 tips and reviews
Chris G: Home of the Titanium Goose, The trainer variant of the A-12, serial number 60-6927. This blackbird is the only one with two canopies in tandem to allow training flights.
1 Tranquility Base (I-565 and Old Madison Pike Ave.), Huntsville, AL
Science Museum · 81 tips and reviews
Chris G: Home of A-12, serial number 60-6930. She used to have NASA markings on the Tail, similar to the YF-12 NASA flew, however NASA never flew the A-12. She now has the correct markings.
Chris G: "Home of the only remaining M-21 variant ,Serial number 60-6940, of the A-12 blackbird. This particular bird was designed to carry the Lockheed D-21, which was a unmanned mach 3.35 recon drone."
Chris G: Home of former YF-12, serial number 60-6934. This YF-12 was damaged when is crashed in1963. It was later rechristened at the only SR-71C, serial number 61-7981. Quite the story that goes with this one
Chris G: Home to the only member of the Blackbird family outside the United States. SR-71A, serial number 61-7962, set a flight altitude record of 85,069 feet in July 1976.
Chris G: SR-71A, serial number 61-7968 resides here. in 1971 this bird set an endurance record for the SR-71 family, covering 15,000 miles in 10 and a half hours!
500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR
Museum · 37 tips and reviews
Chris G: 61-7971 lives here. This is the most accurate SR-71 on display, and 1 of 2, reactivated when the program was brought back in 1995. She has logged 3512.5 hrs of flight time over the course of 31 years.
Chris G: Home to SR-71A, serial number 61-7972. This Blackbird was also the basis for the Transformer "Jetfire" in the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
1100 Spaatz St (at Wright Patterson Air Force Base), Dayton, OH
Museum · 109 tips and reviews
Chris G: Home to SR-71A, serial number 61-7976. This blackbird flew the 1st operational mission. Also one of first to be on display. One of only two places that you can see two Blackbirds in the same location.