Accidents and Aircraft Disposition
Twelve SR-71s were lost and one pilot died in accidents during the aircraft's service career. Eleven of these accidents happened between 1966 and 1972.
| Serial number | 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) |
Notes: Many secondary references use apparently incorrect 64- series aircraft serial numbers (e.g. SR-71C 64-17981), but no primary government documents have been found to support this.
After completion of all USAF and NASA SR-71 operations at Edwards AFB, the SR-71 Flight Simulator was moved in July 2006 to the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas.
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