Dates

Event

Circa August 1963

Constructed as a YF-12A.

Circa 1963

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 60-6935.

18 March 1965

While flying at mach 2.2 and altitude of 65,000 feet, launched an AIM-47 missile successfully intercepting and destroying a Q-2C drone flying at 40,000 feet.

19 May 1965

While flying at Mach 2.3 and altitude of 65,000 feet, launched an AIM-47 missile successfully intercepting and destroying a Q-2C drone flying at 20,000 feet.

1967

Assigned to Edwards AFB, CA for storage.

September 1969

Recalled from storage in 1969 for a joint USAF/NASA investigation of supersonic cruise technology, to aid the SST program.

11 December 1969

First flight of Coldwall project after three months of preparation and modifications. *During the program, the Air Force concentrated on military applications, and NASA pursued a loads research program. NASA studies included inflight heating, skin-friction cooling, coldwall research (a heat transfer experiment), flowfield studies, shaker vane research, and tests in support of the Space Shuttle landing program.*. (NASA). Aircraft continued to make 145 flights in the program.

31 October 1979

Last operational flight.

7 November 1979

Ferry flight. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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21 July 1988

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: In the main museum complex, second building

18 July 1996

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

14 May 2010

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

3 April 2024

Photographer: Austin Newman