SR-71 Blackbird > Catalogs

From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

SR-71 aircraft on display

Places to see a Blackbird on display include:

• Multiple variants:
  • National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio (an SR-71A, YF-12A and M-21/D-21 drone)
• SR-71A variant:
  • Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
  • Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, California
  • Air Force Plant 42 Production Flight Test Installation, Palmdale, California
  • American Air Museum in Britain at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England (the only example displayed outside the US)
  • Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, Louisiana
  • Beale Air Force Base, Marysville, California
  • Castle Air Museum, Atwater, California
  • Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
  • Hill Air Force Base Museum, Ogden, Utah
  • Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas
  • Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
  • March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California
  • Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia
  • Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona
  • Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia
  • Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska
  • Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond, Virginia
• SR-71B variant:
  • Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan
• A-12 predecessor:
  • Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama
  • California Science Center in Los Angeles, California (Two-canopied A-12 trainer model)
  • Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, New York
  • Minnesota Air Guard Museum, Bloomington, Minnesota (Twin Cities International Airport) (This A-12 is currently being shipped to Langley, Virginia to be placed on exhibit on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency)
  • U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
  • San Diego Aerospace Museum in San Diego, California
  • Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama (on loan from National Museum of the United States Air Force)
  • Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Blackbird airpark, at Edwards Air Force Base, Palmdale, California (60-6924, the first A-12 to fly, on April 26, 1962)
• MD-21 predecessor (A-12 variant):
  • Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington
• YF-12 predecessor (A-12 variant)

• National Museum of the United States Air Force, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio.

• unknown variant
  • Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas