Northrop F-89D Scorpion of the 437th Fighter Intercept Squadron stationed at Oxnard AFB California 1956.
Incident
Date
August 16, 1956
Summary
Attempted shootdown
Site
Southern California
Aircraft
Aircraft type
F6F-5K drone and F-89D Scorpion
The Battle of Palmdale was the attempted shoot-down of a runaway drone by United States Air Force interceptors in the skies over Southern California in mid-August 1956. The drone was launched from Point Mugu Naval Air Station and soon went out of control. Interceptor aircraft took off from Oxnard Air Force Base and caught up with the drone, but were ultimately unable to bring it down, despite using all of their rockets. After it ran out of fuel, the unmanned aircraft crashed in a sparsely populated tract of desert.[1]
During the incident over 1,000 acres (400 ha) were scorched and a substantial amount of property was damaged or destroyed.
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