winner of the Extended-Range Multi-Purpose UAV competition August 2005. The aircraft became operational in 2009 as the MQ-1C Gray Eagle. Aircraft on display MQ-1B 03-33120 is preserved at the American Air Museum in Britain at IWM Duxford, and is the first UAV to be displayed at Duxford. The MQ-1B in question was formerly operated by the 432nd Wing of Creech Air Force Base. RQ-1K 95-3013 "Tail 13" is displayed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. Tail 13 was formerly deployed in support of Operation Allied Force; it is noted for having been presumed lost on a mission due to loss of communications only to reappear at its base six hours later, allowing its crew to recover it. Operators Italian Air Force 32° Stormo (32nd Wing) Armando Boetto—Foggia, Amendola Air Force Base 28° Gruppo (28th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron) 61° Gruppo (61st Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron) Turkish Air Force The Turkish Air Force has 6 MQ-1 Predators on order via the USA's Foreign Military Sales mechanism. The Turkish Air Force also operates 3 MQ-1 Predator systems on lease from the US as a stop gap measure as of 2011. The leased MQ-1s are under Turkish command (UAV Base Group Command) but operated by a joint Turkish-US unit. United Arab Emirates Air Force signed a US$197 million deal in February 2013 for an unspecified number of Predators, XP version, marking its first sale. One system of four aircraft is planned to begin delivery in mid-2016. General Atomics stated on 16 February 2017 that it finished deliveries, declining comment on the number delivered. Royal Moroccan Air Force received four Predator A aircraft. Former operators U.S. Customs and Border Protection Central Intelligence Agency Special Operations Group in Langley, VA Specifications See also Notes References Parts of this article are taken from the MQ-1 PREDATOR fact sheet. This article contains material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which exists in the public domain. Further reading External links General Atomics Predator page MQ-1B Predator US Air Force Fact Sheet MQ-1 Predator page on armyrecognition.com Predator page and UAV Sensor page on defense-update.com How the Predator Works – Howstuffworks.com British Daily Telegraph article – 'In Las Vegas a pilot pulls the trigger. In Iraq a Predator fires its missile' Accident report from 20 March 2006 MQ-1L crash Missile strike emphasizes Al-Qaida Q-01 Unmanned aerial vehicles of the