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While stored at Plant 42 during the preparation of Article #128 by Minnesota National Guard representatives for movement to the Minnesota National Guard Museum, unknown persons removed the seal wrap and vandalized this plane of the components from both cockpits. The following photos show the extent of this shameful destruction of this one of a kind historical plane. Article 128, a single cockpit plane, arrived in Minnesota with a full compliment of cockpit components??
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CIA A-12 TRAINER 60-6927 ON PYLON DISPLAY
AT LOS ANGELES SCICENTER
The A-12 Trainer mounted at the California Science Center is mounted in a
area of the "Parking Structure Project" named for Roy Anderson. The
mounted aircraft and the landscaping is known as "The Roy A. Anderson
Blackbird Exhibit and Garden" Roadrunner Torrey Larsen documented the
transition of the Titanium Goose from the Groom Lake A-12 trainer being parked
at Lockheed's Plant 42 to its final resting ground on pylons at the Los Angeles
SciCenter. Follow the progress and process of this worthy project as documented
by Roadrunner Torrey Larsen
The mounting of A-12 Article #124 onto the pylons
Article 124 today (July 2012). Photo by Frank Martinez, Jr., with friendly permission