The largest bird on display in the Kalamazoo Air museum is the SR-71B.
This is the last surviving original SR-71B two-seat trainer.
After It served with the Air Force, it was transferred to NASA before being was used for research by NASA until 1997 when it was retired. The aircraft was then transferred back to the Air Force and then has been with the Air Zoo since 2003 and is now in the newer main building.
It is an impressively large aircraft. Unfortunately given the way it is placed in the museum, you can't get a decent shot of the front of it.
The refueling area is visible from a platform designed to give viewing access to the top of the plane.
Both cockpits are rather cramped and laden with instruments.
The rear cockpit is similarly cramped.
Even on display, and even knowing she will not fly again, she still looks fast.
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