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    Airframe Family: Lockheed U-2
    Latest Model:U-2C
    Last Military Serial:56-6692 USAF
    Compressed ID:Lockheed U-2C sn 56-6692 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-2C.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-6692.

    Converted to an U-2CT.

    1987


    Photographer: Mark Rees
    Notes: At alconbury as a U-2CT

    Converted to an U-2C.
    Returned to the sing seat configuration.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    Loaned to Imperial War Museum, Cambridge CB22 4QR, ENGLAND.

    Placed on display with Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 66692

    10 July 2016


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: American Air Museum, IWM
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     Mark Rees
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