"The thing was full of sand and dirt, had a ton of paint
on it, and the engine and prop were in terrible shape. It was
also incredibly hard to disassemble after all the years in the
desert, and we didn't want to see it anymore after we got it to
Denver."
Source: For more than 30 years, a Northrop
(Radioplane)-built KD2R-5 Shelduck target drone sat on a pole in
the dry desert near El Paso, Texas...