Thought I would show you guys this interesting item here, signed print from the 99 ERS aircrew. One signature is dated 1996. Found at a thrift store the other day, $5.00

That’s a pretty cool find.

yeah, I bet you might be surprised what someone might be able to tell you about it if it is some sort of original. Just a guess. Very cool. Congrats.

The plane is a print of course but the writing is all original, done in pen.

What are we looking at? Is that a U-2 with some extras?

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Originally posted by architect:
What are we looking at? Is that a U-2 with some extras?

The print says it's a Lockheed U-2R.

The U-2R, first flown in 1967, was 40 percent larger and more capable than the original aircraft. A tactical reconnaissance version, the TR-1A, first flew in August 1981 and was structurally identical to the U-2R. The last U-2 and TR-1 aircraft were delivered in October 1989; in 1992 all TR-1s and U-2s were designated as U-2Rs

The print says: Lockheed 'Senior Span III' U-2R,
9th RW, Beale AFB

They still fly the U2 out of Beale. I see them fly overhead at least once a week returning to base.

I spent 2 years at Aviano. Hope to get back to Italy sometime.

As the U2 has one and only one pilot, and no other aircrew, wonder what role the people who signed the print have?

Maybe each signature is a pilot and there were a few U2 on this mission.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I spent 2 years at Aviano. Hope to get back to Italy sometime.

My cousin was based there, early 00s.

Very cool!

GREAT find!!!!!!

Thanks guys!