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  • [Aircraft]: Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

    Super Guppy N941 NASA landing.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Heavy transport aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: N/A
    [Current Location]: El Paso Forward Operating Location
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Aerojet General X-8

    AerojetX8.jpg

    [Type]: Rocket
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes, Upper air research and sounding
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: AeroVironment Centurion

    Centurion takes off from Dryden in December 1998

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Centurion was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
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  • [Aircraft]: AeroVironment Gossamer Albatross

    Gossamer Albatross II in flight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Human Powered
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: AeroVironment Helios

    Helios in flight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: NASA's Helios Prototype was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
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  • [Aircraft]: AeroVironment Pathfinder

    Pathfinder solar aircraft over Hawaii.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: AeroVironment Pathfinder Prototype was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
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  • [Aircraft]: AeroVironment Pathfinder Plus

    Pathfinder Plus solar aircraft over Hawaii.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    [Comments]: Pathfinder Plus Prototype was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
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  • [Aircraft]: AeroVironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye

    Dragon Eye.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]: Ames Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Beechcraft Super King Air (NASA 8)

    Beech b300 kingair 350 m-five arp.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Transport Personnel
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Current Location]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Comments]: Carries employees from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia and Baltimore
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  • [Aircraft]: Beechcraft King Air B-200 (UC-12B)

    NASA Langley's B200 King Air.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Beechcraft T-34C

    Beech T-34C Turbo Mentor - GPN-2000-001989.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform & Photographic Chase
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Glenn Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Wallops Flight Facility, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell UH-1H Iroquois (Huey)

    Sniper in chopper (3527391492).jpg

    [Type]: Rotorcraft
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Current Location]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell Lunar Landing Research Vehicle LLRV

    LLRV 2.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center (#2)
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell X-1A Glamorous Glennis

    Bell X-1 color.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1946
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Air and Space Museum
    [Comments]: High-speed and high-altitude testing. First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.Proved aerodynamic viability of thin wing sections.
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell X-1B

    Bell X-1B USAF.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell X-1E

    X-1E On Rogers Dry Lake With Collapsed Nose Gear - GPN-2000-000103.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell X-5

    Bell-X5-Multiple.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1951
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: First aircraft to fly with variable geometry wings.
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  • [Aircraft]: Bell XV-15

    Xv-15 inflight.jpg

    [Type]: V/STOL, Tilt Rotor
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Bellanca Skyrocket II

    Bellanca Skyrocket II.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Civil Aircraft Test
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing 737, NASA 515

    NASA 515 during braking test run on snow-covered runway at Brunswick Naval Air Station.

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Terminal Area Productivity (TAP)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: Museum of Flight
    [Comments]: NASA 515 is the first Boeing 737 ever built. After being used to qualify the 737 design, NASA heavily modified the aircraft for continuing research.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing 747-100SR

    A NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747-100SR.

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]: Registered as N905NA (which is a 747-100 model that was acquired from American Airlines in 1974) and N911NA (a 747-100SR model purchased from Japan Airlines in 1988). In 2013, Space Center Houston announced plans to display SCA 905 with the mockup shuttle Independence mounted on its back. NASA 905 was erected on site at the space center, having been ferried in pieces from Ellington Field, and the replica shuttle was mounted in August 2014. The display opened in early 2016.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing 747, (SOFIA)

    SOFIA ED10-0182-01 full.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Airborne observatory, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing 757

    NASA Aries 757 at Colorado Springs 2001 EL-1996-00055 flight.jpeg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Advanced technology
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Ex–Eastern Airlines 757
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing B-52B

    TF-104G with NASA NB-52B in flight 1979.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Pima Air & Space Museum (003), Air Force Flight Test Center Museum (008)
    [Comments]: X-15 & X-43A launch from Boeing B-52 mothership
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing CH-47B Chinook

    NASA CH-47B used as an in-flight simulator. Former US Army 66-19138

    [Type]: Rotorcraft
    [Use]: Research, Variable Stability Research Rotorcraft project
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: It was equipped to fly by wire and had three on board computers. After research was completed, it was returned to the US Army and upgraded to the CH–47D standard.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

    NASA parabolic flight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer, Reduced gravity aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]: 1973 - 2004
    [Research Centers]: Ellington Field, Houston, Texas
    [Current Location]: Ellington Field, Houston, Texas
    [Comments]: USAF KC–135As (designated N930NA and N931NA) Potential astronauts were exposed to simulated near–weightlessness. These aircraft are also known as Vomit Comets.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing NB-52B, NASA NB-52B

    NASA B-52 Tail Number 008 is an air launch carrier aircraft "mothership," as well as a research aircraft platform that has been used on a variety of research projects.

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Test Platform
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Edwards Air Force Base
    [Comments]: Used as a mothership for the X-15 program, 127 Lifting body flight tests such as the HL-10 test flight, to support development in the Space Shuttle program, and several other miscellaneous test programs. After almost 50 years flying service Balls 8 was retired from active service with NASA on December 17, 2004, following its participation in the Hyper-X program.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing X-37

    Boeing X-37B inside payload fairing before launch.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Active
    [Dates From To]: 2006 (drop test), 2010 (orbital flight)
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Reusable orbital spaceplane.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing X-40

    Boeing X40A.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1998
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: 80% scale Space Maneuver Vehicle testbed.X-37 prototype.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing X-48

    Boeing X-48C in flight

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes, Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: X-48 series was utilized to "evaluate the low-speed stability and control of a low-noise version of a notional hybrid-wing-body design." NASA is hoping that this particular aircraft will aid in the design "green airlines." Blended Wing Body (BWB) testbed.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing X-45A

    Boeing X-45A UCAV.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Air and Space Museum (#1 Blue), National Museum of the United States Air Force (#2 Red)
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing

    X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing NASA test aircraft EC03-0039-1.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 2002
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Active Aeroelastic Wing testbed.
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  • [Aircraft]: Boeing Vertol VZ-2 (Model 76)

    VZ-2 arriving at Langley Air Force Base from Edwards Air Force Base in 1960

    [Type]: V/STOL, Tilt Rotor
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Paul E. Garber Facility.
    [Comments]: Built in the United States in 1957 to investigate the tiltwing approach to vertical take-off and landing.
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  • [Aircraft]: Cessna 206H

    Cessna206HStationair03.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: Langley Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Cessna 337 Skymaster
    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Civil Aircraft Test, Small Aircraft Transportation System
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Cessna 318 T-37 Tweet

    T-37 021203-O-9999G-003.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Civil Aircraft Test, Small Aircraft Transportation System
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Cirrus SR22

    CirrusDesignSR22C-FJSH02.JPG

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Civil Aircraft Test, Small Aircraft Transportation System
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Convair 880

    DAL-Convair-880inflight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Controlled Impact Demonstration Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Langley Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Convair 990 (Galileo)

    Convair 990 In flight EC93-41018-12.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Airborne observatory, Galileo Observatory
    [Status (Qty)]: Destroyed (1), Retired (1) & Crashed (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Mojave Air and Space Port
    [Comments]: The Galileo I aircraft was lost in a mid-air collision in 1973 with a P-3. The Galileo II continued service into the 1980s providing research into aeronautics, astronautics, astronomy, and earth observations, but was destroyed in 1985 by fire after the right main landing gear failed and punctured fuel tanks. NASA 810 was used to test the shuttle landing gear and braking systems, before being retired.
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  • [Aircraft]: Convair F–106 Delta Dart (QF–106A)

    Whitcomb with f106 in 1991.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1986 - 1998
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: Langley Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Convair C-131 Samaritan (Convair CV-240)

    C-131F Samaritan VR-30 in flight.JPEG

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Training, Reduced gravity aircraft, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center, Ellington Field, Houston, TX
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Project Mercury astronauts flew aboard a C-131 Samaritan flying as the "vomit comet
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  • [Aircraft]: Dassault HU-25C Falcon

    Dassault Falcon (Mystere) 20F-5 (PH-BPS).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: Langley Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo (Bisontennial) named in 1976

    NASA C-8A AWJSRA on take-off.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, STOL
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1970s late - early 1980s
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Fitted with a short-span Boeing wing incorporating split-flow turbofan engines based on the Rolls-Royce Spey (providing both propulsion and augmentor airflow for the powered lift system). Beginning in 1972 with its first flight in this experimental configuration, this aircraft was used jointly by the NASA Ames Research Center and the Canadian Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce for STOL research.
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  • [Aircraft]: de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo (QSRA)

    NASA QSRA.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, STOL, Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft program.:153
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1970s late - early 1980s
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: The experimental wing was designed, fabricated and installed by Boeing was a swept, supercritical design incorporating a boundary layer control system.:8 Instead of the standard engines, this aircraft was powered by four prototype Avco Lycoming YF102 high-bypass turbofan engines (originally from the Northrop YA-9 program) mounted above the wing to take advantage of the Coandă effect.:9–10 In 1980, this aircraft participated in carrier trials aboard USS Kitty Hawk, demonstrating STOL performance without the use of catapults or arrestor gear.:154
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  • [Aircraft]: de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter

    De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter, NASA AN0727923.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, aircraft icing
    [Status (Qty)]:
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Glenn Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Doak VZ-4

    Doak VZ-4 in hovering flight.jpg

    [Type]: VTOL
    [Use]: Research
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: U.S. Army Transportation Museum
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas C-47 Skytrain

    C-47H NASA in flight 1963.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Test
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas C-118 Liftmaster

    Douglas C-118A Liftmaster (DC-6A), NASA AN2204136.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]:
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas C-133 Cargomaster

    C-133b-sanfrancsiscobay.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Heavy Transport Aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1966-1969
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak

    Douglas Skystreak D-588-I.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of Naval Aviation (#1), Carolinas Aviation Museum (#3)
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket

    D-558-II-NASA-E-1442.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Planes of Fame Museum (#1), National Air and Space Museum (#2), Antelope Valley College (#3)
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas DC-8

    Douglas DC-8 NASA.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: National Suborbital Education and Research Center (NSERC), University of North Dakota
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas F5D Skylancer

    F5D in flight 1971.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer, Chase Plane
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]: 1961 - 1970
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum (802), Ontario Municipal Airport (708)
    [Comments]: Used as a testbed for supersonic research and to train pilots for the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. The F5D-1 Skylancer had a wing planform similar to the proposed design for Dyna-Soar. After the Dyna-Soar program was canceled in December 1963, one F5D-1 stayed on at Armstrong, eventually becoming a flight simulator for the M2-F2, and a chase plane for experimental flights until 1970. In May 1970 one of the aircraft was retired and donated to the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum.
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  • [Aircraft]: Douglas X-3 Stiletto

    Douglas X-3 NASA E-17348.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1952-1956
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: Titanium alloy construction; low aspect ratio wings. Planned to test long-duration high-speed flight. Incapable of reaching design speed, but provided insights into inertia coupling.
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  • [Aircraft]: Dyke Delta

    N18DW Dyke Delta.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]:
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Eiri-Avion PIK-20

    Pik20E NASA.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, Sailplane
    [Use]: Research, Lift & Aerodynamics
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1981-1996
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: General Atomics ALTUS

    NASA ALTUS UAV.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired? (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (Predator-B IKHANA)

    Ikhana Flies the Western States Fire Mission.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research Platform
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: General Dynamics F–16 Fighting Falcon

    N816NA GD F-16A Fighting Falcon NASA (9077111923).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]: 1988 - 1999
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Prototypes of the F–16XL, designed as a competitor to the F-15E Strike Eagle in the USAF's Enhanced Tactical Fighter program
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  • [Aircraft]: General Dynamics F-16 VISTA

    3 three thrust-vectoring aircraft.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Variability in flight simulator aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: General Dynamics F-16XL

    F-16xl.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center (1)
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Grumman Gulfstream I

    N4NA Grumman G.159 Gulfstream Ex -- NASA (8737886807).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (7)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: Johnson Space Center
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Grumman X-29

    Grumman-X29-InFlight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes, Forward swept wing
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]: 1984-1991
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]:
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  • [Aircraft]: Grumman Gulfstream II

    A Shuttle Training Aircraft at Patrick Air Force Base, ready for takeoff.

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA)
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (4)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: NA
    [Current Location]: El Paso Forward Operating Location, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas (NASA C-11A)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Gulfstream G-III

    Gulfstream G-III with NASA markings.

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Research Platform, Airborne Science Program, Unmanned Air Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR)
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]: 2003 - Today
    [Research Centers]: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center (NASA C–20A)
    [Comments]: Acquired from the United States Air Force and modified by Armstrong Flight Research Center. The aircraft was equipped with a self-contained on-board Data Collection and Processing System (DCAPS), which allows for automated configuration setups thereby reducing engineering costs for each flight. The aircraft has been used by the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) program, the Access 5 program alongside Scaled Composites Proteus aircraft, and as a test bed to develop collision avoidance systems and procedures.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Gulfstream G-III, NASA one

    Gulfstream G-III with NASA markings.

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Business jet of the NASA Administrator
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]: 2003 - 2008
    [Research Centers]: NA
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: NASA one was a Gulfstream G-III with a seating capacity of 12 people. The jet is stored in an FAA hangar along with 3 other government planes. NASA now shares a plane with FAA.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Gulfstream X-54
    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Proposed
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Hawker Siddeley P.1127

    Hawker Siddeley P.1127 in flight at NASA Langley 1968.jpeg

    [Type]: V/STOL
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Kreider-Reisner XC-31

    Kreider-Reisner XC-31 USAF.JPG

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, DeIcing
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Learjet 23

    Learjet 23 der NASA.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Business jet
    [Status (Qty)]: ?
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Learjet 24

    NASA DFRC Lear 24 in flight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Business jet
    [Status (Qty)]:
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Lear Jet Airborne Observatory
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Learjet 25

    Learjet 25 der NASA.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Business jet
    [Status (Qty)]: Active
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Current Location]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Learjet 28

    Learjet 28-29.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Business jet
    [Status (Qty)]:
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Ling–Temco–Vought LTV XC–142

    Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A.jpg

    [Type]: V/STOL, Tilt Wing
    [Use]: Research, Transport aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1966-1970
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy

    USAF C-5 Galaxy in flight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Heavy transport aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Flown by USAF crews.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed C-121 Starliner

    C-69.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Active
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed C-141A Starlifter

    NASA C-141A KAO.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Airborne observatory, Kuiper Airborne Observatory
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1974 - 1995
    [Research Centers]: NASA Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed F-104A Starfighter

    F-104A NACA at Edwards AFB 1960.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Air and Space Museum (818) (N818NA), Air Force Flight Test Center Museum (N820NA) (0790)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed F-104B Starfighter

    Lockheed F-104B Starfighter ‘71303 - FG-303’ (30054926701).jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: McClellan AFB (N819NA)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed F-104G Starfighter

    Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Estrella Warbird Museum (N824NA), Armstrong Flight Research Center (N826NA)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed F-104N Starfighter

    N812NA Lockheed F-104N Starfighter NASA (9077101093).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Chase
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (6) & Crashed (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1963 - 1995
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (N811NA) (4045), Lockheed Martin, Palmdale, CA (N812NA)
    [Comments]: One of these aircraft, piloted by Joe Walker, collided with the XB-70 Valkyrie experimental bomber on June 8, 1966, killing Walker.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed JetStar

    N814NA Lockheed Jetstar NASA (9079513730).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1964-1989
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed NC-130B Hercules

    NASA NC-130B N707NA in flight (AC91-0367-24).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS)
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Current Location]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed P–3 Orion

    P-3 on the Ramp in Kangerlussuaq (5589976906).jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Current Location]: Wallops Flight Facility
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed S–3 Viking

    NASA Glenn Research Center S-3B.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform
    [Status (Qty)]: Active
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Glenn Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed SR-71

    Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1991 - 1999
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Pima Air Museum
    [Comments]: The plane was permanently retired in 1998, and the Air Force quickly disposed of their SR-71s, leaving NASA with the last two airworthy Blackbirds until 1999. All other Blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few D-21 drones retained by the NASA Dryden Research Center.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird
    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1991 - 1999
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]: The plane was permanently retired in 1998, and the Air Force quickly disposed of their SR-71s, leaving NASA with the last two airworthy Blackbirds until 1999. All other Blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few D-21 drones retained by the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird
    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1991 - 1999
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum
    [Comments]: The plane was permanently retired in 1998, and the Air Force quickly disposed of their SR-71s, leaving NASA with the last two airworthy Blackbirds until 1999. All other Blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few D-21 drones retained by the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed U-2 "Dragon Lady"

    Usaf.u2.750pix.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS), High Altitude
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Modified to the ER-2 (Earth Resources-2) standard
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed YF-12

    YF-12A.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center, Glenn Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed YO–3 Quiet Star

    Lockheed YO-3.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: X-33 Venture Star

    X-33 Venture Star in Orbit.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: Prototype never completed
    [Research Centers]: Lockheed Martin
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Half-scale reusable launch vehicle prototype.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA
    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: Cancelled
    [Research Centers]: [Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: F-22-based Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft thrust vectoring testbed.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Lockheed Martin X-56 (MUTT)

    Lockheed Martin X-56A.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research Platform, X-Planes, Multi-Utility Technology Testbed
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 2012
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Active flutter suppression and gust load alleviation technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Martin WB–57 Canberra

    928 Desktop.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform - Airborne Science Program, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS) High Altitude
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (3)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
    [Current Location]: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
    [Comments]: Earth Resources Technology Satellite program (ERTS), Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Area Cirrus Experiment (CRYSTAL - FACE) and Clouds and Water Vapor in the Climate System (CWVCS)
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Martin-Marietta X-24A

    X24.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: Low-speed lifting body handling testbed.Lifting body aerodynamic shape trials.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Martin-Marietta X-24B

    X24B.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1973
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: Low-speed lifting body handling testbed.Lifting body aerodynamic shape trials.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell 188 (Breguet 941)

    McDonnell 188.jpg

    [Type]: STOL
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 HARV

    FA18 LEX.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, High Alpha Research Vehicle
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Virginia Air and Space Center (840NA)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas DC-9

    New York Air DC-9 Detroit - 16 August 1983.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Johnson Space Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F-15A RPRV/SRV

    67 FS F-15 Eagle in action at Red Flag–Alaska.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (842NA)

    FA18 LEX.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Clear Channel Stadium
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas C-9 Skytrain II

    DC-9 reduced-gravity training aircraft - going up.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Training, Reduced gravity aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]: 2005 - TBD
    [Research Centers]: Johnson Space Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Ex-USN C-9B
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

    F-4B VMFA-314 1968.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Chase Plane
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: X-15 program, Lifting body flights (also collected biomedical data and used to see if sonic booms could be used as a weapon)
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD

    F15smtd01.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, advanced propulsion concepts
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1), Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1993 – 1999 and IFCS programs 2002 – TBD
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center F-15S/MTD
    [Comments]: The F-15B research aircraft (tail number 837), the first two-seat F-15 built by McDonnell Douglas, was used initially for developmental testing and evaluation.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F-15B

    NASA F-15B 836 with Quiet Spike.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas F-15D

    F-15D 897 Flight over Mojave Desert.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McDonnell Douglas X-36

    Boeing-X36-InFlight.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1997
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: 28% scale tailless fighter testbed.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: McCulloch J-2

    McCulloch J-2 Aero Super Gyroplane - GPN-2000-001904.jpg

    [Type]: Rotorcraft
    [Use]: Civil Test
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired? (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1973
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Micro Craft X-43 Hyper-X

    X-43 NASA.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 2001
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: Scramjet hypersonic testbed (Mach 9.68) (110,000 ft).
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: MIT Daedalus

    Daedalus-human-powered-aircraft.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Human Powered
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1988
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Museum of Science (Boston)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: NASA AD-1

    NASA AD–1

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Oblique Wing
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1979 - 1982
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Hiller Aviation Museum
    [Comments]: Successfully demonstrated an aircraft wing that could be pivoted obliquely from zero to 60 degrees during flight.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: NASA Hyper III

    Hyper III at Dryden 1969.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: NASA Mini-Sniffer

    Mini-Sniffer III on Lakebed.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, atmosphere, high altitude
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (3)
    [Dates From To]: 1975 - 1982
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: NASA M2-F1

    NASA M2–F1 Lifting body

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Model
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]: The NASA M2-F1 was a lightweight, unpowered prototype aircraft, developed to flight test the wingless Lifting body concept. It looked like a "flying bathtub," and was designated the M2–F1, the "M" referring to "manned" and "F" referring to "flight" version. In 1962, NASA Dryden management approved a program to build a lightweight, unpowered Lifting body prototype. It featured a plywood shell placed over a tubular steel frame crafted at Dryden. Construction was completed in 1963.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: NASA Paresev

    NASA Parasev

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, Paraglider
    [Use]: Research, Space Capsule Safety (1)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (4)
    [Dates From To]: 1961 - 1965
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    [Comments]: Was designed to study the ability of the Rogallo wing, also called Parawing, to descend a payload such as the Gemini space capsule safely from high altitude to ground. Specifically, the Paresev was a test vehicle used to learn how to control this paraglider for a safe landing at a normal airfield.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: NASA X-43

    X-43A.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (3)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American AJ Savage

    AJ-1 in flight over California 1950.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer, Reduced gravity aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (3)
    [Dates From To]: 1960 - TBD
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American A3J-1 Vigilante
    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research - Supersonic transport program
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (3)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: A3J-1 147858 to NASA as 858. Brought from NAS Patuxent River and spent one year at in support of supersonic transport program.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American F-82 Twin Mustang

    North American XP-82 Twin Mustang 44-83887.Color.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Handling & Performance
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American F-86 Sabre

    F-86 Sabre.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Chase
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American F-100 Super Sabre

    JF-100C NASA at Edwards AFB 1962.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American OV-10 Bronco

    NASA OV-10.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Noise & Wave Turbulence
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American X-15 (Rocket plane)

    X-15 in flight.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes, Hypersonic Flight
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1959 - 1968
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
    [Comments]: Conceived by NACA, three were built and explored the regime of hypersonic flight, often regarded as a direct predecessor to the Space Shuttle
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American X-15A-2

    X-15 in flight.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American XB-70A Valkyrie

    XB–70 Valkyrie on display at Wright-Patterson AFB

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1), Crashed (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1965 - 1969
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: NASA participated heavily in the design and testing of the XB-70 Valkyrie in the mid to late 1960s. NASA and the United States Air Force had a joint agreement to use the second XB–70A prototype for high–speed research flights in support of the proposed SST program. These plans went awry on June 8, 1966, when the second XB–70 crashed following a midair collision with NASA's F–104N chase plane. After 33 research flights following the mid–air collision, the remaining XB–70A was flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on February 4, 1969 for museum display.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American YF-93

    North American YF-93A on lakebed.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: North American F-107

    NAA XF-107A.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Pima Air and Space Museum (#1) (55-5118)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop HL-10

    Northrop HL-10.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Lifting body
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop M2-F2

    Northrop M2-F2.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Lifting body
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop M2-F3

    Northrop M2-F3.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Lifting body
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop T-38 Talon

    Northrop T-38A Talon - GPN-2000-001906.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Trainer
    [Status (Qty)]: Active, Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1960s - Today
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: El Paso Forward Operating Location, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas
    [Comments]: Used as a jet trainer for its astronauts since the 1960s.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop X-4 Bantam

    Northrop-X4-Bantam.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1948
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Air Force Flight Test Center Museum#Air Force Flight Test Museum
    [Comments]: Evaluated handling characteristics of tailless aircraft in the transonic speed region.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop-Grumman F-5E modified

    F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration aircraft.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 2003-2007
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]: Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
    [Comments]: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration was a two-year program that used an F-5E with a modified fuselage in order to demonstrate that the aircraft's shockwave, and accompanying sonic boom, can be shaped and thereby reduced.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

    NASA Global Hawk.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Orbital Sciences X-34

    Orbital Sciences X34.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: Never flew
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]: National Museum of the United States Air Force
    [Comments]: Reusable unmanned space plane testbed.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: OMAC Laser 300

    OMAC Laser 300.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Civil Test
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (3)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche

    Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche landing.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]:
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Kings River Community College (808NA)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Pitcairn PAA-1

    Pitcairn Autogiro NASA GPN-2000-001990.jpg

    [Type]: V/STOL
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT

    HIMAT.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research, Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Rockwell-MBB X-31

    Rockwell-MBB X-31 landing.JPG

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes, Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability (EFM)
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1), Crashed (2)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center, European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Company
    [Current Location]: Oberschleißheim Museum (part of the Deutsches Museum)
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Rutan VariEze

    Rutan.variEze.g-veze.arp.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Civil Air
    [Status (Qty)]: Active
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane

    VZ-3RY flaps down on runway.jpg

    [Type]: VTOL
    [Use]: Experimental VTOL aircraft
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Moffett Federal Airfield
    [Current Location]: United States Army Aviation Museum
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Ryan XV–5 Vertifan

    XV-5-ramp.jpg

    [Type]: V/STOL
    [Use]: Research, Rescue Research
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]: United States Army Aviation Museum
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Scaled Composites X-38

    ISS Crew Return Vehicle.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]: 1999
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (V-131), Strategic Air and Space Museum(V-132)
    [Comments]: Lifting body Crew Return Vehicle demonstrator.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft (SIERRA)

    SIERRA-Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Crashed (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]: Lost at Sea
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Schweizer X-26 Frigate

    X-26 sailplane.jpg

    [Type]:
    [Use]: Research, X-Planes,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired
    [Dates From To]: 1967
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: National Soaring Museum (1-36)
    [Comments]: Training glider for yaw-roll couplingQuiet observation aircraft testbed.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe

    Sikorsky Skycrane carrying parachute bomb c.jpg

    [Type]: Rotorcraft
    [Use]: Utility
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Sikorsky H-19

    Sikorsky S-55 inflight c.jpg

    [Type]: Rotorcraft
    [Use]: Utility
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Langley Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Sikorsky S-72, RSRA

    NASA RSRA in flight.jpg

    [Type]: V/STOL
    [Use]: Research,
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (2)
    [Dates From To]: 1979-?
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]: RSRA, Rotor Systems Research Aircraft
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Vought F–8 Crusader (Fly by Wire)

    F-8C with the Digital-Fly-By-Wire Control System - GPN-2002-000194.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Digital Fly–By–Wire Control System
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1970s
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]: Technology has become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Vought F–8 Crusader (Supercritical wing)

    NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft - GPN-2000-002001.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research Platform, Supercritical wing
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (1)
    [Dates From To]: 1970s
    [Research Centers]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Current Location]: Armstrong Flight Research Center
    [Comments]: Technology has become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: Vought XF8U–3 Crusader III

    XF8U-3 Crusader III.jpg

    [Type]: Fixed Wing
    [Use]: Research, Atmospheric Platform
    [Status (Qty)]: Retired (3)
    [Dates From To]: 1958-?
    [Research Centers]:
    [Current Location]:
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

  • [Aircraft]: eXperimental Sensor-Controller Aerial Vehicle (XSCAV)
    [Type]: Fixed Wing, UAV
    [Use]: Research Platform, Airborne Science Program
    [Status (Qty)]: Active (1)
    [Dates From To]:
    [Research Centers]: Ames Research Center
    [Current Location]: Ames Research Center
    [Comments]:
    (Aircraft)

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NASA, also known as NASA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is an executive branch of the Federal Government that develops and implements the U.S. space program and conducts research in the aerospace and Space Sciences. NASA is currently the world’s leading aerospace research organization, sharing its research data with many national and international scientific institutions.

Throughout its history, NASA has used several different types of aircraft for permanent, semi-permanent or short-term use. These aircraft are usually redundant, but in a few cases they are newly built military aircraft. The random tool generated a total of 154 items for different aircraft models, status, current location, and other specific information. If you’re interested in studying these airlines, don’t miss out on the data compiled by random tools.

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