Free Evergreen Museum Entry For Dads This Weekend

From The Evergreen Museum: On Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, the Museum showcases its Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird exhibit with presentations and speakers panels made up of nineteen former SR-71 pilots, maintenance personnel and crew.

Guest speakers will discuss the program, answer questions and interact with visitors. Two panel discussions will be held per day with an additional SR-71 presentation at the aircraft exhibit.

On Sunday morning a Father’s Day pancake breakfast provided by Chris Cakes Northwest will be held in the Space Museum, featuring their amazing flying pancakes!

Museum Interim Executive Director John Rasmussen says, “The Blackbird is 1960s technology built with a slide rule instead of computers — and is an aviation marvel, even today. Our visitors that travel near and far describe our SR-71 display as the best they have ever seen.”

The Museum’s SR-71A — serial number 17971 — has a noteworthy history: It is one of three Blackbirds used by NASA for high-speed research in the 1990s, and was the last flyable aircraft of this type. It is also the only Blackbird currently on display in Oregon.

The SR-71, a D-21 drone and much of the Blackbird’ssupport equipment is on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

SR-71 events are free with Museum admission. Dads receive free Museum admission Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17.

The Sunday morning Father’s Day pancake breakfast costs $10, and is not included in Museum admission.

Full event details and a link to purchase tickets to the pancake breakfast are available online at the Museum website, www.evergreenmuseum.org.

Image via U.S. Air Force, Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum