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Photographs of "Blackbird"
A12/SR71/SR71a/SR71b
aircraft that I have seen so far, on various trips
to the USA....
1. The first "Blackbird" an A/12.
#60-6930. Located at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Centre in
Alabama USA......
2. The second "Blackbird" an SR71/A. #61-7958.
This aircraft is located at the
Warner Robins Air Force Museum at Warner Robins near Macon
Georgia USA.....It includes in the display a D21B drone.
3. The third "Blackbird" SR71/A
#61-7968 I looked at was at
Richmond in Virginia USA.....
It was extremely hot and the grass around the aircraft was
very scorched.....
4. The fourth "Blackbird" SR71/A
#61-7976 was at the Wright
Patterson Air Museum in Dayton Ohio USA.....
5. The fifth "Blackbird" SR71/A
#61-7972 was at the strangest
named museum near Washington USA... it was at the
NASA Air and Space Museum The
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.....
6. The sixth "Blackbird" SR71/A
#61-7959 was at the Air Force
Museum at Eglin Florida USA.....This is the Air Force
Armament Museum there are many aircraft on display here....
This Blackbird has an extended tail section of approximately
8 feet/2.5 metres this was added to test some new radar
technology at the time.
7. The seventh "Blackbird" an A12
#60-6938 was at the Battleship
USS Alabama Museum at a place called Mobile in Alabama
USA.....
8. The eighth "Blackbird" an A/12
#60-6937 I saw
on my trip to the USA in April 2010 was at the Southern
Museum of Flight at Birmingham Alabama USA.....
9. I went to the Imperial War Museum at
Duxford in England in June 2010, they
have the only "Blackbird" SR71/A #61-7962 outside the United States of
America at
the American air museum.
10. In August 2010 I
travelled to Palmdale in
California to visit the Blackbird Airpark where they have 2
"Blackbirds" on display.....
First one the A-12 #60-6924 This was the first Blackbird A12
to fly.....
11.Then the second the SR-71/A
#61-7973.....
Both together..
12.In September 2010 I visited the USS Intrepid
Aircraft Carrier it is a Floating Museum and is
situated in New York. They have a "Blackbird" A12
#60-6925 on display on the flight deck....
13. On the 13th. of June 2012 I went
to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo museum at Kalamazoo Michigan where
they have the only "Blackbird" SR71/b trainer...#61-7956. The museum is
also famous for its "longest
indoor hand painted mural" in the world, this is recorded in
the Guinness Book of World Records......"
14. On the 14th. of June 2012 I went to
the Wright Patterson Museum in Dayton Ohio, I had been to
this museum before and had seen 1 "Blackbird" (number 4 above)
they have 2 Blackbirds and one of them is located in a part
of the museum that is only accessible by bus.... on my last
visit there were no spaces left on the bus.... this time I
was there first thing and got my name down :D This one is a
"Blackbird" YF12A #60-6935 and was never used operationally, also in
the photograph is a D21B drone.....
15. The next "Blackbird" is a SR71/A
#61-7961 on
display at the Kansas Cosmosphere at Hutchinson in Kansas,
it is very difficult to see the entire aircraft and the
photograph doesn't really do it any justice as it is mounted
as if it is in flight.......
16. This "Blackbird" SR71/A
#61-7964 is on display at
the SAC Museum near Ashland in Nebraska, again it is mounted
at an angle as if in flight but there is a lot more room
around the aircraft to see it all more clearly........
17. On the 16th of April 2013 while on holiday, I went to
the 8th. Air Force Museum at Barksdale Air Force Base at
Bossier City Louisiana USA... This is "Blackbird" SR71/A
#61-7976.
On the 22nd April 2013 I revisited the Air Force
Armaments Museum at Eglin in Florida and took some more
photographs of the
"Blackbird" SR71/A #61-7959
at number 6 above.....
18. This "Blackbird" SR71/A #61-7979 is located at
Lackland Air Force Base at San Antonio Texas USA.... I had
to photograph the aircraft from some distance away as there
was no admittance to the base for security reasons when I
arrived....
I hope to add to this page in
the future if I get to see any more of these fantastic aircraft.........
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