The Tejon Ranch Radar Cross Section Facility was a radar cross-section testing site operated by Northrop Corporation—later Northrop Grumman—from the 1980s to 2011 in Antelope Valley, California, Unite
Southward view of Tejon RCS
United States Air Force Plant 42 is a classified aircraft manufacturing plant owned by the United States Air Force in the Antelope Valley, about 60 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It is also used by
Tejon Ranch Radar Cross Section Facility
…and Scaled Composites. It is also home to several key US government aerospace facilities, such as Edwards Air Force Base, the United States Air Force's Plant 42, and NASA's Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. Notable milestones in the area's history include Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier in…
Entrance plaza of the Lockheed Skunk Works
Sign by one of the gates into Plant 42
FAA airport diagram of Plant 42
Palmdale Airport in 1953, showing its World War II configuration