Unmanned Aerial Vehicles R&D airport

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles R&D airport
El Mirage, California (CA), US
This small airport is used for flight testing related to the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), which are small, remotely operated aircraft used primarily for intelligence gathering (though also for weapons delivery). Facilities consist of small hangar structures, support buildings, and a runway, adjacent to El Mirage Dry Lake in the Antelope Valley. Owned by the Aeronautical Systems division of San Diego-based General Atomics, which developed the Predator and Gnat UAVs. The company also recently purchased the former McDonnell Douglas/Boeing Gray Butte Radar Cross-Section facility, located south of El Mirage.

UAVs in Iraq.

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UAV training base

This small airport is used for flight testing related to the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), which are small, remotely operated aircraft used primarily for intelligence gathering (though also for weapons delivery). Facilities consist of small hangar structures, support buildings, and a runway, adjacent to El Mirage Dry Lake in the Antelope Valley. Owned by the Aeronautical Systems division of San Diego-based General Atomics, which developed the Predator and Gnat UAVs. The company also recently purchased the former McDonnell Douglas/Boeing Gray Butte Radar Cross-Section facility, located south of El Mirage.

UAVs in Iraq.

UAV training base

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Links: clui.org, www.bing.com, www1.dfrc.nasa.gov
By: kjfitz

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Parabellum
@ 2007-02-16 13:12:56
Airport For Sale: http://www.socalvacation.com/Airport%20for%20sale.html
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kjfitz
@ 2007-03-07 14:11:43
I visited here this weekend. Nothing to see but the front gate. I started to take a picture of the front gate and a guard told me to go away. I took the picture anyway.
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kjfitz
@ 2007-03-07 14:13:03
This site has the same "Aeronautical Systems" sign in front of it that Gray Butte has in front of it. Both are used to test the new Predator UAV.

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