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NASA News
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Dryden Flight Research Center
P.O. Box 273
Edwards, California 93523
Voice   661-276-3449
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For release: March 27, 2003

Frederick A. Johnsen, News Chief                    
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center 
                       
Phone: (661) 276-3449

Release: 03-18

NASA SR-71 AND F-18 HARV HEAD FOR MUSEUMS

Two unique NASA aircraft left Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on 
March 24 as truck convoys carried them to their final destinations.

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's SR-71B Blackbird aircraft, NASA 
tail number 831, is destined for the Kalamazoo Air Zoo museum in 
Kalamazoo, Mich., and the F-18 High Angle-of-Attack Research Vehicle 
(HARV) aircraft, NASA tail number 840, is going to the Virginia Air 
and Space Center in Hampton, Va.

NASA's SR-71B was one of only two SR-71 trainer aircraft built, and 
served NASA in that role, as well as for some high-speed research, 
from 1991 to 1999.

The F-18 HARV provided some of the most comprehensive data on the 
high-angle-of-attack flight regime, flying at angles of up to 70 
degrees from the horizontal. The HARV flew 385 research flights at 
Dryden from 1987 through 1996.

- NASA-

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