The Lockheed A-12 as a top secret high speed reconnaissance aircraft for the USAF. Designed in the 1960s in the Lockheed secret "Skunk works" by Kelly Johnson. Called the Oxcart it was flown from top secret Groom Lake base (later called Area 51). The type was produced from 1962 to 1964, and was in operation from 1963 until 1968. The A-12 operated at high speeds and altitudes and the A-12 existance was revealed in 1990.

It appears that only some missions were flown out of Kadena AFB at Okinawa from 1967 over South East Asia and in 1968 a mission over North Korea. 

The design and concept later evolved into the better known SR-71 Blackbird two seater recon type.

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Lockheed A-12

This aircraft is a A-12 located at Nellis AFB museum.

Photographed 2011 by Cees Hendriks (C) Copyright!

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Lockheed A-12 trainer

This A-12 is a unique aircraft as it is the only A-12 trainer ever built. Now on display at Roy A. Anderson Blackbird Exhibit and Garden at the California Science Center in Los Angeles (CA).

Photographed 2015 by Cees Hendriks (C) Copyright!

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Lockheed A-12

This A-12 with c/n 60-6924 was manufactured in 1966-1967 and flew with the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB. It was put out of service in July 1987.  Now preserved at Blackbird Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42 since September 1991 where it was seen in 2016.

Photographed 2016 by Cees Hendriks (C) Copyright!

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No A-12 kits are known.

A very old plastic scale model in scale 1/72 was released as YF-12/"A-11" in 1966 by Revell but that was the interceptor version.

Our IPMS member Meindert built a converted 1/72 scale model of the A-12 [external link]

 

this walk around page was first published February 2012 by M. de Vreeze