U-2C
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Subject:: Lockheed U-2A
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency (1947-now)
566689 (Gary Powers)
May 1960 Shoot Down - Russia (Result: Failed)
Black
Scale:: 1:72
Status:: Ideas

Date: 1960

Personal Interest: A U-2C similar to the one involved in the 1960 incident over the Soviet Union was on display at the SAC Museum near Offutt AFB in my home state of Nebraska. As a child, I greatly admired that aircraft and was fascinated by stories of bold U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Model Specifications: This model represents the U-2C piloted by Francis Gary Powers that was shot down near Sverdlovsk by a S-75 (SA-2) in 1960.