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category: "Organizations"
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tags:
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- Organization
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- PrivateCompany
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- Texas
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- SierraBlanca
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- TestRange
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- Raytheon
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- UAP
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alias:
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- Mile High Resources LLC
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- Mile High Resources, LLC
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- Mile High Resources Range
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- Mile High Ordnance LLC
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- Mile High Ordnance, LLC
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- T & M Aviation, Inc.
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summary: "Texas limited liability company chartered February 26, 2014 at Sierra Blanca; the name appears in Raytheon's October 2015 Pike munition release and in 2025 and 2026 FCC filings for a range on Skunk Canyon Road."
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location: "Sierra Blanca, Texas"
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relations:
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- type: hosted
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with: "[[Raytheon]]"
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start: 2015-10-12
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role: "Pike 40 mm guided-munition flight tests 'at Mile High Resources in Texas' (Raytheon release datelined Tucson, October 12, 2015); Next Generation Short Range Interceptor radio filings of 2025 and 2026 naming the 'Mile High Resources Range, 2000 Skunk Canyon Rd.'"
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fn: 3
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- type: part_of
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with: "[[Sierra Blanca, Texas]]"
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start: 2014-02-26
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role: "chartered with a Sierra Blanca taxpayer address; the Mile High Resources Range lies inside the airspace polygon of FAA notice 5/3497"
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fn: 1
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- type: hosted
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with: "[[RADA Technologies]]"
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start: 2023-07-14
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role: "radar product tests at the 'Mile High Range in Texas' for customer BAE, special temporary authority WV9XWE (1443-EX-ST-2023, requested August 1, 2023 to January 1, 2024); earlier filing 0384-EX-ST-2023 (February 20, 2023) names 'Mile High'"
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fn: 6
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created: 2026-10-04
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updated: 2026-10-04
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Mile High Resources, LLC is a Texas limited liability company with a taxpayer address in [[Sierra Blanca, Texas]] ([[Hudspeth County, Texas]]). The [[Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts]] open dataset of active franchise tax permit holders gives its taxpayer number as 32053311828, its [[Texas Secretary of State]] file number as 0801941989, its charter date as February 26, 2014, and its status and right to transact business as active (code A); an industry-code field on the record reads 238912. The record gives no officers, managers or registered agent.[^1]
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### Mile High Ordnance and T & M Aviation
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The same dataset lists Mile High Ordnance, LLC, taxpayer number 32083235625, Secretary of State file number 0804452481, chartered February 14, 2022, status active, with the same Sierra Blanca mailing address as Mile High Resources, LLC. A query of the dataset for that mailing address in Sierra Blanca returns these two entities and no others.[^1]
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The dataset also lists T & M Aviation, Inc., chartered January 17, 2013 with a taxpayer address of 2000 Skunk Canyon Road, Sierra Blanca, status active; that is the street address the Federal Communications Commission filings below give for the Mile High Resources Range. The record gives no officers.[^1]
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The [[Hudspeth Central Appraisal District]] roll carries an 838-acre parcel at 2000 Skunk Canyon, in Section 5 of the Public School Land survey, owned by private individuals, about 7.5 miles from the town of Sierra Blanca. Four other appraisal accounts of about 2,600 acres in total, owned by private individuals, carry on the March 2026 roll the mailing address that the two Mile High limited liability companies give in the Comptroller dataset. Plotted against the national defense airspace polygon of [[Federal Aviation Administration]] notice 5/3497 (November 2025), the parcel lies inside it.[^2]
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### Use as a test range
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A [[Raytheon]] release datelined Tucson, October 12, 2015, reports that the company fired two [[Pike (munition)|Pike]] 40 mm precision-guided munitions from a standard tube grenade launcher "during flight tests at Mile High Resources in Texas," that both rounds landed within the target impact area, and that they flew more than 2,300 yards.[^3] A trade copy of the release is dated October 13, 2015.[^4]
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The [[Federal Communications Commission]] experimental licensing records for Sierra Blanca list two Raytheon applications that name the site. File 1976-EX-ST-2025 (call sign WA9XGO) seeks authority for "a radio that is used in the development and testing of the Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI)," states that "Raytheon needs to complete DOW testing with Army customer by the end of the year (2025)," requests 2200-2290 MHz, and limits the area of operations to the "Mile High Resources Range, 2000 Skunk Canyon Rd., Sierra Blanca, TX, 79851." File 0306-EX-ST-2026 (WA9XYW, received February 10, 2026) describes "DOW follow up testing with Army customer," requests 2272 MHz and flight levels up to 5,500 feet above ground level, and names the same range.[^5]
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Earlier Raytheon experimental filings with a Sierra Blanca transmitter location are WK9XXY (0313-EX-ST-2017, 434-436 MHz rocket telemetry, "3 days of launches scheduled") and WI2XYN (0461-EX-CN-2017, with renewals through 0387-EX-CR-2022). Other licensees with Sierra Blanca locations since 2011 are [[SRC, Inc.]], [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Bell Textron]], [[Electronic Warfare Associates]], [[Dynetics]], [[RADA Technologies]], [[Numerica Corporation]] and [[Boots Consulting LLC]]; the filings are listed on Sierra Blanca, Texas.[^5]
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### RADA Technologies Filings and Raytheon Telemetry Site
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Two Federal Communications Commission experimental filings by RADA Technologies, LLC use the name "Mile High" in 2023. File 0384-EX-ST-2023 (call sign WV9XAV), received February 20, 2023, gives the reason "Short term requirement from customer that exceeds conventional timeline," the purpose "for RADA to use radars in demos/tests for threat protection at Mile High," a requested period of February 20 to August 20, 2023, the band 3300 to 3400 MHz and a Sierra Blanca site at 31 15 06 N, 105 19 35 W. File 1443-EX-ST-2023 (WV9XWE), received July 14, 2023, gives the reason "To meet August 3rd deadline requested by customer ([[BAE Systems|BAE]])," the purpose "Test of our product line at Mile High Range in Texas," a requested period of August 1, 2023 to January 1, 2024, bands including 3300 to 3500 MHz, 9201 to 9375.5 MHz and 9444.5 to 9956.5 MHz, and a site at 31 16 11 N, 105 24 34 W.[^6]
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Raytheon files 1976-EX-ST-2025 (WA9XGO, received November 19, 2025, telemetry flight testing for the Next Generation Short Range Interceptor, December 5 to 31, 2025) and 0306-EX-ST-2026 (WA9XYW, received February 10, 2026, February 24 to August 24, 2026) both give the site 31 16 18 N, 105 24 46 W. The RADA WV9XWE site and the Raytheon site are 7 arc-seconds of latitude and 12 arc-seconds of longitude apart, about 0.4 kilometers. One narrative in the Raytheon filings reads "Testing will take place on a non-DoD range near Sierra Blanca, TX," and the area of operations is given as the Mile High Resources Range.[^7]
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The Boots Consulting LLC filing 0231-EX-ST-2025 (WY9XUK, received February 6, 2025) requests one RADA-built RPS-42 radar on 3300 to 3400 MHz at three Sierra Blanca sites (31 16 14 N, 105 23 25 W; 31 15 04 N, 105 26 10 W; 31 14 01 N, 105 32 51 W) for March 6 to September 6, 2025; the first of these is about 2 kilometers from the RADA and Raytheon coordinates above.[^8]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, "Active Franchise Tax Permit Holders" open dataset, https://data.texas.gov/resource/9cir-efmm.json , queried October 4, 2026 by taxpayer name ("MILE HIGH RES"), by mailing address in Sierra Blanca, and by county code 115 (Hudspeth).
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[^2]: Texas Geographic Information Office, StratMap land parcels, Hudspeth County, rolls 2023-04, 2024-04 and 2026-03 (appraisal district account 30988, 62 1/2 Sec 5 PSL, 838.00 acres); polygon of FAA FDC 5/3497, https://tfr.faa.gov/tfrapi/getNotamText?notamId=5/3497
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[^3]: "Raytheon's miniature Pike munitions go 2 for 2 in first guided tests," Raytheon, Tucson, October 12, 2015. https://raytheon.mediaroom.com/2015-10-12-Miniature-Pike-munitions-go-2-for-2-in-first-guided-tests
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[^4]: ExecutiveBiz, Raytheon Pike guided-munition test report, October 13, 2015. https://executivebiz.com/?p=108481
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[^5]: Federal Communications Commission, Office of Engineering and Technology, Experimental Licensing System, files 1976-EX-ST-2025, 0306-EX-ST-2026, 0313-EX-ST-2017 and 0461-EX-CN-2017 with later renewals, technical narratives and exhibits, https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/GenericSearch.cfm , read October 4, 2026.
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[^6]: Federal Communications Commission, Experimental Licensing System, files 0384-EX-ST-2023 (WV9XAV) and 1443-EX-ST-2023 (WV9XWE), RADA Technologies, LLC, applications and narratives. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/GenericSearch.cfm
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[^7]: Federal Communications Commission, Experimental Licensing System, files 1976-EX-ST-2025 (WA9XGO) and 0306-EX-ST-2026 (WA9XYW), Raytheon Company, applications and narratives. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/GenericSearch.cfm
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[^8]: Federal Communications Commission, Experimental Licensing System, file 0231-EX-ST-2025 (WY9XUK), Boots Consulting LLC. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/GenericSearch.cfm
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