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The Lockheed A-12 is a retired high-altitude, Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Lockheed's Skunk Works, based on the designs of Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. The aircraft was designated A-12, the twelfth in a series of internal design efforts for "Archangel", the aircraft's internal ...
This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from its founding as the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 to its merging with Martin Marietta to form the Lockheed Martin Corporation in 1995. Ordered by model number, Lockheed gave most of its aircraft astronomical names, from the first Vega to the C-5 Galaxy.
Aircraft Photograph Model Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref. 69-0014 C-5A 1971 August 1971 August 7, 2013
A-12 Shrike, a World War 2–era American attack aircraft; Abrial A-12 Bagoas, a French experimental glider of the 1930s; Aero A.12, a Czechoslovak light bomber built after World War I; Lockheed A-12, codenamed Oxcart, a high-altitude, high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, manufactured for the CIA
The Pratt & Whitney J58 (company designation JT11D-20) is an American jet engine that powered the Lockheed A-12, and subsequently the YF-12 and the SR-71 aircraft. It was an afterburning turbojet engine with a unique compressor bleed to the afterburner that gave increased thrust at high speeds.
A Lockheed 12 appeared as the French airliner in the climactic final scene from the 1942 film Casablanca. [44] (The aircraft carries the Air France seahorse logo, [45] although Air France did not actually operate the type 12A). A "cut-out" stood in for a real Lockheed 12 in many shots. No real aircraft appeared in the movie.
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The General Dynamics/McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II was a proposed American attack aircraft from General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas. It was to be an all-weather, carrier-based stealth bomber replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder in the United States Navy and Marine Corps .