Originally Posted by bmorgan
I will see what I can do. I have not been to the museum for quite some time. Maybe this is a good excuse to go there. That is a cool plane. I worked with the U-2's for several years... until about 3 years ago. I will try to swing by there this weekend.
Bobby, I posted this some time ago in "OTHER VEHICLES" GO TO THE POST THERE, ALL DISPLAYS ARE CLICKABLE.
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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)
◦March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California (an SR-71A and a 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
◦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
•SR-71C variant:
◦Hill Air Force Base Museum, Ogden, Utah
You also might want to check the OXCART--A-12 CIA Plane:
List of A-12 OXCARTsSerial numberModelLocation or fate60-6924A-12Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Blackbird Airpark, at Edwards Air Force Base, Palmdale, California. 606924 was the first A-12 to fly.60-6925A-12Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, parked on the deck of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, New York City60-6926A-12Lost, 24 May 196360-6927A-12California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA (Two-canopied trainer model, "Titanium Goose")60-6928A-12Lost, 5 January 196760-6929A-12Lost, 28 December 196760-6930A-12U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama60-6931A-12CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia[7]60-6932A-12Lost, 5 June 196860-6933A-12San Diego Aerospace Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, California60-6937A-12Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama60-6938A-12Battleship Memorial Park (USS Alabama), Mobile, Alabama
60-6939 A-12 Lost, 9 July 1964