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Lockheed U-2C
Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, used by CIA, NASA, and USAF. This U-2 flew the first operational mission over the USSR on 4 July 1956. Hervey Stockman was the pilot.
- Date
- 1955
- Type
- CRAFT-Aircraft Parts
- Medium
- Overall: 16 ft., 7340lb., 63 × 80 ft. (487.7cm, 3329.4kg, 1920.2 × 2438.4cm)
- Department
- NASM
- Institution
- National Air and Space Museum
- Object number
- nasm_A19820380000
- Credit
- Transferred from the United States Air Force