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The General Motors Desert Proving Ground – Yuma opened at YTC in late July 2009. General Motors built the facility at a cost of more than $100 million after closing its desert automotive test facility in Mesa, Arizona, that had been in operation since 1953.
GM Desert Proving Ground in Mesa, Arizona, USA was a General Motors facility for the testing of HVAC, propulsion, and various automotive systems in a harsh climate. Opened in 1953, the closure of this facility was completed in 2009. It was replaced by a new facility in Yuma, Arizona, known as the Desert Proving Ground Yuma.
Yuma Test Branch was built in 1943 northwest of Camp Laguna, in what is now the Yuma Proving Ground. The Yuma Test Branch, also called the Italians at the Yuma Test Branch, was built to test mobile bridge building equipment. The site is near the Colorado River, thus was ideal for testing mobile combat bridges, amphibious vehicles, and boats.
U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground: 2,382 4 Yuma Regional Medical Center: 2,300 5 Yuma County 1,437 6 Yuma Elementary School District: 1,400 7 City of Yuma 1,274 8 TRAX 1,125 9 United States Border Patrol: 1,000 10 Arizona Western College: 987
Laguna Army Airfield (IATA: LGF, ICAO: KLGF, FAA LID: LGF) is a military airport located at Yuma Proving Ground, 14 miles (12 nmi; 23 km) northeast of the central business district of Yuma, a city in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The airport has an active air traffic control tower within class D airspace. [1]
GM notified about 1,000 employees, most in metro Detroit, that they were being let go early Friday.
Yuma Proving Ground, ... ground is used for testing military equipment and encompasses 1,307.8 square miles (3,387.2 km²) in the Sonoran Desert. Automotive
Almost 12 years ago, a pilot flying a small plane over the desert in Arizona spotted something she would never forget. Pez Owen told NPR that when she noticed white crosses on the ground, ...