Atlantis
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Reged: 07/08/05
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Loc: Australia
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Greetings, this is my first post. I have been searching for Blackbirds on the ground and have collected 18 of them.
As far as I am aware the other remaining Blackbird aircraft are either destroyed/cannibalised or under cover in museums.
EDIT : Added a Ninth one.
EDIT : Added a tenth one
EDIT : Got twelve now thanks to Renegade
EDIT : Got thirteen thanks to Criper2000
EDIT : Added another three thanks to Hill and af_mmolina
EDIT : thanks to esterrett for finding another 2
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jeffryv
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Reged: 07/16/05
Posts: 1390
Loc: Vancouver, BC Canada
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Fantastic 1st post
Cool!!!!
They have all been Placemarked before, but never as a complete collection
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Edited by jeffryv (07/24/05 04:43 AM)
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Atlantis
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Loc: Australia
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Fantastic 1st post
Cool!!!!
They have all been Placemarked before, but never as a complete collection
Thanks, I did a search for blackbird but I think I will have to brush up on my search technique. I was only searching topics newer than one week. I will check out the others.
EDIT: Added a ninth one.
Edited by Atlantis (07/24/05 05:26 AM)
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jeffryv
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Loc: Vancouver, BC Canada
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Also you might want to turn on "Layers"
Keyhole BBS Layer
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Atlantis
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Reged: 07/08/05
Posts: 46
Loc: Australia
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I have worked out the Keyhold Community BBS layer thanks.
Added a tenth Blackbird to the list.
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Calico_Jack
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Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 353
Loc: Missouri Etats-Unis d'Amerique
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I'm surprised no one has rated this one yet. Effort expended should be rewarded (most excellent AND interesting first post).
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Renegade
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Reged: 07/24/05
Posts: 2
Loc: Texas
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Here is one at Eglin:
30°27'57.03"N
86°33'43.98"W
Here is one at Randolph:
29°23'22.88"N
98°37'14.62"W
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Atlantis
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Reged: 07/08/05
Posts: 46
Loc: Australia
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Thanks Renegade,
I have added your two to the collection. We now have twelve blackbirds in the kmz file.
I can't stop whistling 4 and 20 Blackbirds baked in a pie.
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Criper2000
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Reged: 07/25/05
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i found another one not marked thats also at edwards afb
34° 54' 45" N
117° 55' 13.8" W
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jclarke
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Reged: 02/13/05
Posts: 571
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Welcome to the BBS, criper! The easiest way to post a location is to create a placemark at the location describing the object (use the "pushpin" icon on Google Earth), then right click on it and do a "save as". This will save a .kmz attachement, which you can then add to your post (the BBS will let you add an attachment when you preview the post). This is much simpler for everyone than just posting lat/long coordinates.
Before you add a new placemark, though, you'll want to turn on the Keyhole Community BBS layer (in the layers menu, bottom left) which will show you any existing placemarks at the location.
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Criper2000
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thanks for the info. i attached the placemark
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ExGrunt
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Reged: 07/15/05
Posts: 110
Loc: New Zealand
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I thought there were only 2 Blackbirds
I watched a Documentry on them and they said the US only had 2
NICE
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ERAU_PRC_PILOT
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Reged: 07/16/05
Posts: 13
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How could you guys miss this one?
Problem is that It's covered, but there's a blackbird under that structure, along with a drone. That is the Pima Air and Space museum in TUcson, AZ. Been there more than ten times, and it never gets boring!!!
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Hill
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Reged: 10/31/04
Posts: 9202
Loc: Southern California
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Here's a picture of the only 2-seat A-12 trainer being installed outside of the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Update: The latest imagery finally shows it in place.
More pictures
Here is a list of the locations of all remaining Blackbirds of all types.
Edited by Hill (08/19/05 12:42 AM)
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af_mmolina
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Reged: 07/26/05
Posts: 2
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Just a note to you guys, theres one at Barksdale AFB now on display, but the image isnt up to date so you cant see it right now.
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number1fan
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Reged: 11/22/04
Posts: 1163
Loc: NorCAL
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There is also another under aroof in Seattle!
Museum of Flight
Edited by number1fan (08/02/05 11:07 PM)
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Rex_Rexworth
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Reged: 07/22/05
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Not true... I think there were somewhere around 20 of them. There may be only 2 in use today, though. After the project was scrapped, I heard that they pulled a couple out of retirement for some special mission or something.
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Atlantis
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Loc: Australia
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thanks for the info. i attached the placemark
Can anyone positively identify the serial number of Criper2000's 13th Blackbird?
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Atlantis
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Loc: Australia
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Thanks Hill, I have added that one along with two others to total 16 Blackbirds on the ground (visible or soon to be)
As it is a collection of placemarks, I have just been editing the kmz file etc in my first post, so I hope that is an ok practice.
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Renegade
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Reged: 07/24/05
Posts: 2
Loc: Texas
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Here is another one, underneath this Shelter:
32° 8'21.41"N
110°51'56.33"W
EDIT:
OK I just saw post above. This is the one at PIMA. And I will start using KMZ files instead of L&L.
Edited by Renegade (08/01/05 11:01 AM)
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BruceR
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Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 76
Loc: Wirral, UK
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Yes, I've been there, it's indoors, about 4 miles south of your placemark.
The BB there a special version with a remote control drone that seperates from the tail.
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number1fan
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Reged: 11/22/04
Posts: 1163
Loc: NorCAL
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Bruce,
How long ago were you there?
I went to a museum in the early 199o's that
was south of where I put the Place Mark.
They had an A-12 on the floor.
Web site
n1f
Bruce,
Went back to the site I got directions from the Mapquest link-- showing where I had posted the pm. deleted now 
Edited by number1fan (08/02/05 11:11 PM)
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BruceR
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Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 76
Loc: Wirral, UK
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I was there in about '99 or 2000. You can see the planes on GE. eg, Air Force One. And the Red Barn (Boeing's birthplace) is placemarked on the Community layers.
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mikedd969
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Reged: 08/04/05
Posts: 7
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There is another one (the two seater version) on display at the USS Alabama Memorial Park in Mobile AL. It is parked outside about 80% of the time these days, so if they ever update the coverage of Mobile you may get lucky on this one as well. THe next time I'm there I'll get the registration number for you.
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opticsnake
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Reged: 07/20/05
Posts: 12
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Found this post on digg.com
http://digg.com/technology/Cool_Google_Maps_Overlay_showing_SR-71_Blackbirds
I'm sure that most of them are ones that you guys have already found but thought you might be interested anyways.
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Grimmie
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Reged: 08/24/05
Posts: 221
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 SR-71A #17962 - Flyable in storage. To be put on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England.
OOPS!!! ( Old data)
Hay a plane that can be in 2 places at once. That is fast for a old aircraft.
http://aam.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1105
 UPDATE:
It is the SR-71 17955 the SR-71A #17962 hsa been moved to its new home in the UK
Edited by Grimmie (08/31/05 09:17 AM)
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Atlantis
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Posts: 46
Loc: Australia
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Hi Grimmie,
According to this link:-
http://www.habu.org/sr-71/17962a.html
(Which I consider the blackbird bible)
Confirms that 17962 now in Duxford came from Palmdale in April 2001, but that plane you placemarked is 25 Miles North East of Palmdale.
I remember now that my friend esterrett has actually already identified this bird as 17955 using these photos taken in 2004 http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/blackbird/17955/17955-2004-06.htm
Check out the B52 in the background as a reference.
Here are some more photos of 61-7955 in her final home.
http://www.habu.org/sr-71/17955c.html
Thanks for the heads up, I have updated my collection of placemarks to include this bird as being identified as 61-7955.
Atlantis
P.s. The display @ Duxford museum is under a roof.
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Atlantis
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Reged: 07/08/05
Posts: 46
Loc: Australia
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Now we can actually see it, the satellite imagery really shows the original silvery color of this one up.
http://www.habu.org/a-12/06927.html
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kjfitz
Collection Editor
Reged: 07/25/05
Posts: 189
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Two of these are gone after the most recent database update:
2 Blackbirds 61-7962 & 61-7980
There is also one in a different place at Edwards AFB now (perhaps one of the two listed above?) I've attached a pointer to the newly placed one.
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Collection of the World's Hovercraft
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StealthyJJ
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Reged: 07/10/06
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Here is Blackbird 61-7981. It is located at the Hill AFB Museum in Utah. All the info about it is attached to the placemark. Enjoy!
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Panther37
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Posts: 150
Loc: San Angelo, TX
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http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/56930/
I think there might be two threads going on here.
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Cho Do Naval Base, North Korea
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StealthyJJ
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Reged: 07/10/06
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OK. Just wondering. Are there any sled drivers following this forum for the blackbird? Would be interesting to hear if there was.
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Atlantis
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Posts: 46
Loc: Australia
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OK. Just wondering. Are there any sled drivers following this forum for the blackbird? Would be interesting to hear if there was.
Most Sled drivers would have checked out where all their birds have ended up for sure. Using Google Earth would be logical for a spy plane pilot, you know, looking down from a familiar view and all. 
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Downtrodden_Willie_Dixon
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There is one in BattleShip Park in Mobile, AL. But it is indoors. You can see it on their site.
http://www.ussalabama.com/html/collection/index.php
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meeatu
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Reged: 07/01/07
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you should move 60-6933 over to the southwest a touch, but other than that, Great post! are they all working, or are some just scaled models?
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Atlantis
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Loc: Australia
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