page_title: Battle of Palmdale
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Palmdale
caption_attribution_description: English: 437th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Northrop F-89D-70-NO Scorpion 53-2679 1956 Stationed at Oxnard AFB, California. At Nellis AFB, California
context_page_description: 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, in spite of expending all of their rockets. After it ran out of fuel, the unmanned aircraft crashed in a sparsely populated tract of desert.
  During the incident over 1000 acres were scorched and a substantial amount of property was damaged or destroyed.
context_section_description: 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, in spite of expending all of their rockets. After it ran out of fuel, the unmanned aircraft crashed in a sparsely populated tract of desert.
  During the incident over 1000 acres were scorched and a substantial amount of property was damaged or destroyed.
caption: Northrop F-89D Scorpion of the 437th Fighter Intercept Squadron stationed at Oxnard AFB California 1956.
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