War II ended, various experiment were made with Radioplane target drones. In one experiment in 1950, a derivative of the QQ-3 Radioplane drone was used to lay military communication wire. During the war Radioplane manufactured nearly fifteen thousand drones. The company was bought by Northrop in 1952. Surviving aircraft OQ-2 on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. OQ-2 on display at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California. OQ-2 on display at the Aviation Unmanned Vehicle Museum in Caddo Mills, Texas. OQ-2 or OQ-3 on display at the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York. RP-5A on display at the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance, California. OQ-2A on loan to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, New York from the National Model Aviation Museum. OQ-2A on display at the Museum of the American G.I. in College Station, Texas. Specifications (OQ-2) See also References Sources This article contains material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain. External links "The Radioplane Target Drone" a complete history of Radioplane in the World War II era. 1940s United States special-purpose aircraft Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States Radioplane aircraft