Point Mugu To Be Recognized As Historic Aerospace Site | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-04.21.25

Airborne-NextGen-04.22.25

AirborneUnlimited-04.23.25

Airborne-FltTraining-04.24.25

AirborneUnlimited-04.25.25

Thu, Nov 13, 2003

Point Mugu To Be Recognized As Historic Aerospace Site

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has named Point Mugu Missile Center as a Historic Aerospace site. A dedication ceremony will be held Friday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. to highlight more than 55 years of significant contributions by the people of Point Mugu in Navy missiles, weapons systems and platform research, development, test and evaluation.

Of historical significance--In 1947, the first missile launched from the USS Cusk took place, this was followed by the first guided missile to destroy an airborne target in 1950 then post World War II missiles among them the Sparrow, Regulus, Phoenix, Bullpup, Polaris, Trident, Harpoon, Tomahawk, Standoff Land-Attack Missile (SLAM), Standard and Rolling Airframe Missiles.

AIAA founded the historic Aerospace site program for the preservation and promotion of sites of significant accomplishments made by the aerospace profession both to industry and to the general public. Sites are chosen through a nomination process.

Throughout the years, the name has changed, but the quality of the testing has remained constant. The history of the rich technical and operation testing benefits are an integral part of our Nation’s security.

In recent years, electronic warfare projects have grown in number and importance with a critical requirement to test weapons against realistic threats and in electronmagnetic environments.

FMI: www.aiaa.org, www.nawcwd.navy.mil, www.nbvc.navy.mil

Advertisement

More News

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.23.25): Quadrant

Quadrant A quarter part of a circle, centered on a NAVAID, oriented clockwise from magnetic north as follows: NE quadrant 000-089, SE quadrant 090-179, SW quadrant 180-269, NW quad>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.23.25)

Aero Linx: Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Working Group (ARFFWG) The Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Working Group (ARFFWG) is a non-profit organization established in 199>[...]

NTSB Prelim: Beech A36TC

(Pilot) Noticed The Airplane’s Airspeed Was Not Increasing And Immediately Looked For A Place To Land On March 9, 2025, about 1530 eastern daylight time, a Beech A36TC, N347M>[...]

Classic Aero-TV: ERAUÂ’s Matthew Gailey-2019 Bob Hoover Presidential Scholarship

From 2019 (YouTube Edition): One Of Four Winners Of A 2019 Bob Hoover Legacy Foundation Scholarship The recipients of the 2019 Bob Hoover Legacy Foundation scholarship were announc>[...]

Airborne 04.23.25: CAF C-47 Skytrain, Tough Low-Level Drone Regs, NEW NOTAMs

Also: Astronaut Pettit & Cosmonauts Return, Malaysia Wants Boeing Slots, Germany Nixes Typhoon Sale, More Boeing Woes The CAF’s restored C-47 Skytrain “Ready 4 Duty>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC