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Registration: 60-6933

Construction Number: 130

Code Number: 06933

Model Lockheed A-12 Blackbird

Operator: San Diego Aerospace Museum

Airport: San Diego - Balboa Park, Aerospace Museum, USA - California

Photographer: Martin Laycock

Date Taken: 10/1992

Date Submitted: 17/03/2009

This A-12 made the first of her 217 flights on 27 November 1963. Her career was short-lived and her final flight was made in August 1965 after which she was retired with a total of only 406.3 flying hours 'on-the-clock'. She was stored at Plant 42 at Palmdale, California before being trucked to the San Diego Aerospace Museum where she was displayed outside the entrance.

Picture ID:1163833

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