There was a TDR

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Interstate still exists, they are in Anaheim Ca and they make products for many of the UAV in use around the world. I hear that there is a picture of the first Cadet is hanging in their cafeteria.

Look for a segment about the TDRs on an Episode of "History Detectives" this summer on PBS (2011).

Some were also built by the Naval Aircraft Factory (Philadelphia, PA) under the designation TDN-1.

Our Air Museum is located at Airport Road in Jamestown, New York. We are looking for information about the TDR-1 production here in Jamestown.

I have jetsonable landing gear set for for TDRs.

I have a particular interest in this aircraft, mostly because of the nature of it, and the fact that this is proof that we had anything even remotely resembling the u.a.v.'s that we have today. I find it remarkable that our aviation technologies were as advanced as they were in World War 2, and that the Interstate TDR-1 was as successful as as it was The fact that we even a surviving example of such a top secret plane that can be seen by the public is awesome. However, I can't find all the dimentions of the craft besides the wingspan, but I have figured the length to be about 34 to 36 feet, all I need to know now is the approximate height with and without the landing gear. If anyone knows the dimentions of this plane, I would be greatly pleased to know.

A few years ago AAHS published a study of the TDR with lots of real world WW2 photos. This was not a target drone. It was an "assault drone," a weapon that was used in the Pacific against heavily defended and fortified ships and positions on land. It could haul a 1000 pound bomb and when the clumsy landing gear was jettisoned, it had the capability of leaving it's TBM mothership "in the dust."

I got to fly an Interstate Cadet in the late 60's, out of Deer Valley Airport, Phoenix. A few years ago, there was and Interstate setting at a small airport along side I-5 just south of Myrtle Creek, Oregon. I don't remember the N number of it. I grew up in Cottonwood, Arizona. I was nine when we moved there in 1947. The flight training had ended by that time. As a kid I spent a lot of time at the airport.

I flew the Interstate Cadet in Cottonwood Ariz. during flight training for the USN. We as cadets were given 65 hours and if you succeeded you went on to Pre-Flight School. It was a great little plane and I must admit I exceeded its no-no list a few times. Did my first Immelman turn to keep from crashing into the narrowing walls of Oak Creek Canyon

Most of these aircraft were used as target drones by the USN.

Manufactured by Interstate Engineering in El Segundo, CA, and other models were the TDR2 & TDR 3. Interstate also produced the Cadet which was then designated the L-6 during WWII.

The TDR-1's were being developed and tested in my back yard so to speak.