Blackbird Airpark

Lockheed SR-71A (61-7973, Article 2024). This exhibit was the 24th of 32 SR-71's built. It's maiden flight was on the 8th February 1967, crewed by Lockheed test pilots Bill Weaver and Darryl Greenamyer. Assigned to the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, little is known of its history, though its known that it did fly out of Kadena, Okinawa, on operational sorties over Southeast Asia.

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