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Creech Air Force Base, on the Nellis Range in Southern Nevada, since 2000 one of the main operational military drone airports in the world.
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Northbase, at Edwards Air Force Base, used for secret drone research.
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General Atomics El Mirage, California. Early dedicated drone R&D airport.
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General Atomics Gray Butte drone airport.
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Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, where the Predator and Reaper drones are flown, and where new UAV facilities are under construction.
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Yucca Flat, Nevada, a new airport on the former nuclear test range, apparently dedicated to drone flight.
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Ellington Field, near Houston, Texas, is the base for a reconnaissance wing that operates the MQ-1B Predator drone, worldwide.
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Groom Lake, NV. Runways on lakebed used by drones.
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Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Remotely Piloted Aircraft Ramp.
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Marina Airport, near Monterey, California is the site for the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS).
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McMillan Field, at Camp Roberts, California, used for army UAV training.
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Webster Field, an Auxiliary Airfield for Patuxent River Air Station, Maryland, is the navy’s primary UAV test facility.
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Syracuse Airport, New York, is the site of Hancock Field, where the National Guard has one of its only UAV bases in the country. Flies MQ-9 Reapers.
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Cuddeback Lake Field, California, a remote desert airstrip sometimes used for UAV training.