PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE / NAVAL MISSILE CENTER & NMC / PACIFIC MISSILE TEST CENTER & PMTC

F8U-1D 141345 on 4-22-61. (Bill Swisher) DF-8F 144431 on 10-18-64. (Clay Jansson) DF-8F 143703 on 5-15-65. (Bill Swisher) Aircraft 141345 and 144431 were painted with da-glo red outer wings and tail. The F8U-1 D was used as drone director air-craft and the DF-8Fs were target tugs.

NAS Point Mugu, California, is home for the aircraft assigned to PMTC. The basic mission of the test center is to take new and existing missile systems and to develop and refine their usage so they can be integrated into the fleet.

DF-8A 143771 on 10-21-62 with the da-glo tail and outer wings and with the last 3 digits of the BuNo repeated on the nose.
DF-8As were employed as drone control aircraft for the Regulus II missile program. (William Swisher)

DF-8F 144449 on 5-20-67. (William Swisher) DF-8F 143691 in 11-69_ (Harry Gann) Both aircraft have the red tail and outer wings

DF-8F 143693 in 11-69 in drone director colors as described on page 26 and as shown in the color section. (Harry Gann)

F-8.1 150920 (#107) with the Naval Missile Center insignia on the tail. The triangle was white with the lower quadrant red, upper
left navy blue and upper right powder blue. Behind the triangle were two stylized boomerangs with the upper one red and the
lower one navy blue. NMC was painted in red. (Stan Wyckoff)

DF-8F 143699 at Point Mugu on 10-17-70. This target tug was
previously used at China Lake. (via Burger)

DF-8L 145450 at Mugu on 7-6-72. These were drone control
aircraft for QF-86Fs and Hs. (Clay Jansson)

DF-8L 145498 during The Space Fair at NAS Point Mugu on 10-23-72. (William Swisher)

On 26 April 1975 the Test Center adopt¬ed a new insignia as worn on the tail of these Crusaders. The triangle was dark blue with a gold eagle and an¬chor. The stars and the ocean line were white.

PMTC DF-8L with external power plugged in prior to Mugu's 10-76 Air Show. (B. Miller)
DF-8L 145450 in 10-76; tail stripe was medium blue. (Ginter)

DF-8J 150302 being towed at the NAS Point Mugu Air Show in October 1977. The gun ports were black as well as the intake lips and the stripe be¬hind the radome. (via Burger)

DF-8J 150297 at Scott AFB on 9-24-77. Sensors have been added to either side of the intakes and a blade antennae has been added to the ra¬dome. (L. Reynolds via Fred Roos)