Modern-Aviation

AF    Model                           Location or Fate

61-7950     SR-71A Lost, 10 January 1967
61-7951     SR-71A Pima Air & Space Museum (adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base), Tucson, Arizona
61-7952     SR-71A Lost, 25 January 1966
61-7953     SR-71A Lost, 18 December 1969
61-7954     SR-71A Lost, 11 April 1969
61-7955     SR-71A Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, California
61-7956     SR-71B Air Zoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
61-7957     SR-71B Lost, 11 January 1968
61-7958     SR-71A Museum of Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia
61-7959     SR-71A Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
61-7960     SR-71A Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base, Atwater, California
61-7961     SR-71A Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, Kansas
61-7962     SR-71A American Air Museum in Britain, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England
61-7963     SR-71A Beale Air Force Base, Marysville, California
61-7964     SR-71A Strategic Air and Space Museum (adjacent to Offutt Air Force Base), Ashland, Nebraska
61-7965     SR-71A Lost, 25 October 1967
61-7966     SR-71A Lost, 13 April 1967
61-7967     SR-71A Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, Louisiana
61-7968     SR-71A Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, Virginia
61-7969     SR-71A Lost, 10 May 1970
61-7970     SR-71A Lost, 17 June 1970
61-7971     SR-71A Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon
61-7972     SR-71A Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia
61-7973     SR-71A Blackbird Airpark, Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California
61-7974     SR-71A Lost, 21 April 1989
61-7975     SR-71A March Field Air Museum, March Air Reserve Base (former March AFB), Riverside,
                                California
61-7976     SR-71A National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near
                                Dayton, Ohio
61-7977     SR-71A Lost, 10 October 1968. Cockpit section survived and located at the Seattle Museum of
                                Flight.
61-7978     SR-71A Lost, 20 July 1972
61-7979     SR-71A Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
61-7980     SR-71A Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California
61-7981     SR-71C Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah (formerly YF-12A 60-6934)

SR-71 Timeline:

The SR-71 timeline here is a compilation of important dates pulled from many sources. It has been updated to add important dates not contained in any of the sources listed at the bottom of this presentation.

24 December 1957: First J-58 engine run.
1 May 1960: Francis Gary Powers is shot down in a U-2 over the Soviet Union.
13 June 1962: SR-71 mock-up reviewed by Air Force.
30 July 1962: J58 completes pre-flight testing.
28 December 1962: Lockheed signs contract to build six SR-71 aircraft.
25 July 1964: President Johnson makes public announcement of SR-71.
29 October 1964: SR-71 prototype (#61-7950) delivered to Palmdale.
7 December 1964: Beale AFB, CA announced as base for SR-71.
22 December 1964: First flight of the SR-71 with Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland at AF Plant #42.
2 July 1967: Jim Watkins and Dave Dempster fly first international sortie in SR-71A #17972 when the INS
fails on a training mission and they accidentally fly into Mexican airspace.
3 November 1967: A-12 and SR-71 conduct a reconnaissance fly-off. Results were questionable.
5 February 1968: Lockheed ordered to destroy A-12, YF-12, and SR-71 tooling.
8 March 1968: First SR-71A (#61-7978) arrives at Kadena AB (OL 8) to replace A-12s.
21 March 1968: First SR-71 (#61-7976) operational mission flown from Kadena AB over Vietnam.
29 May 1968: CMSGT Bill Gormick begins the tie-cutting tradition of Habu crews neck-ties.
3 December 1975: First flight of SR-71A #61-7959 in "Big Tail" configuration.
20 April 1976: TDY operations started at RAF Mildenhall in SR-71A #17972.
27/28 July 1976: SR-71A sets speed and altitude records (Altitude in Horizontal Flight: 85,068.997 ft. and
Speed Over a Straight Course: 2,193.167 mph).
August 1980: Honeywell starts conversion of AFICS to DAFICS.
15 January 1982: SR-71B #61-7956 flies its 1,000th sortie.
22 November 1989: Air Force SR-71 program officially terminated.
21 January 1990: Last SR-71 (#61-7962) left Kadena AB.
26 January 1990: SR-71 is decommissioned at Beale AFB, CA.
6 March 1990: Last SR-71 flight under SENIOR CROWN program, setting 4 world records.
25 July 1991: SR-71B #61-7956/NASA #831 officially delivered to NASA Dryden.
October 1991: Marta Bohn-Mayer becomes first female SR-71 crew-member.
28 September 1994: Congress votes to allocate $100 million for reactivation of three SR-71s.
26 April 1995: First reactivated SR-71A (#61-7971) makes its first flight after restoration by Lockheed.
28 June 1995: First reactivated SR-71 returns to Air Force at Detachment 2.
28 August 1995: Second reactivated SR-71A (#61-7967) makes first flight after restoration.
19 October 1997: The last flight of SR-71B #61-7956 at Edwards AFB Open House.
9 October 1999: The last flight of the SR-71 (#61-7980/NASA 844).
September 2002: Final resting places of #956, #971, and #980 are made known.