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This is a list of '''NASA aircraft'''. Throughout its history [[NASA]] has used several different types of aircraft on a permanent, semi-permanent, or short-term basis. These aircraft are usually surplus, but in a few cases are newly built, military aircraft.


== Current aircraft ==
{{Lead too short|date=July 2009}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width=220px | Aircraft
! width=80px | Number in service
! Introduced
! Research Center
|-
| [[Aero Spacelines Super Guppy]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Johnson Space Center]]
|-
| [[Aeromot AMT-200 Super Ximango|Aeromot TG-14]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|-
| [[Eurocopter EC135|Airbus H135]]
| {{right|3}}
|
| [[Kennedy Space Center]]
|-
| [[Beechcraft T-34 Mentor]]
| {{right|3}}
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (1), [[Glenn Research Center]] (2)
|-
| [[Beechcraft Super King Air|Beechcraft B-200]]
| {{right|3}}
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (1), [[Langley Research Center]] (2)
|-
| [[Cirrus SR22]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|-
| [[Cessna 350 Corvalis|Columbia LC-40]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|-
| [[DHC-6 Twin Otter]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Glenn Research Center]]
|-
| [[Dassault Falcon 20|Dassault Falcon HU-25 Guardian]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|-
| [[Gulfstream III|Gulfstream C-20A]]
| {{right|1}}
| {{right|2008}}
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|-
| [[Gulfstream III]]
| {{right|4}}
| {{right|2012}}
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (2), [[Langley Research Center]] (1), [[Johnson Space Center]] (1)
|-
| [[Gulfstream V]]
| {{right|1}}
| {{right|2012}}
| [[Johnson Space Center]]
|-
| [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]]
| {{right|1}}
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|-
| [[Lockheed P-3 Orion]]
| {{right|1}}
| {{right|1991}}
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|-
| [[Lockheed U-2|Lockheed ER-2]]
| {{right|2}}
| {{right|1981}}
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|-
| [[Martin B-57 Canberra|Martin WB-57 Canberra]]
| {{right|3}}
|
| [[Johnson Space Center]]
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle]]
| {{right|3}}
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet]]
| {{right|3}}
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|-
| [[Northrop T-38 Talon]]
| {{right|20}}
|
| [[Johnson Space Center]]
|-
|}


== Aircraft ==
Throughout its history, NASA has used several different types of aircraft on a permanent, semi-permanent, or short-term basis. These aircraft are usually surplus (or in a few cases new-built) military aircraft. Included among these are:
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*[[Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy]]
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header"
*[[Aero Spacelines Super Guppy]]
|-
*[[NASA Pathfinder|AeroVironment Pathfinder]] aircraft — NASA's '''Pathfinder''', '''Pathfinder Plus''', '''Centurion''' and '''Helios Prototype''' were an evolutionary series of [[Solar energy|solar]]- and [[fuel cell]] [[system]]-powered [[unmanned aerial vehicle|unmanned aircraft]].
! Aircraft !! Type !! Use !! Status (Qty) !! Dates From To !! Research Centers !! Current Location !! Comments
[[File:NASA Shuttle Transport.jpg|thumb|left|A NASA [[Shuttle Carrier Aircraft]], a modified[[Boeing 747|Boeing 747-100SR]].]]
|-
| [[Aero Spacelines Super Guppy]]
[[File:Super Guppy N941 NASA landing.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Heavy transport aircraft
| Active (1)
|
| N/A
| [[Biggs Army Airfield#NASA El Paso Forward Operating Location|El Paso Forward Operating Location]]
|
|-
| [[Aerojet General X-8]] [[Image:AerojetX8.jpg|100px]]
| Rocket
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]], Upper air research and sounding{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=14}}
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[NASA Centurion|AeroVironment Centurion]]
[[Image:Centurion-EC98-44822-5.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[NASA ERAST Program|Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Centurion was an evolutionary [[Solar energy|solar]] and [[fuel cell]] [[system]] powered [[unmanned aerial vehicle|unmanned aircraft]].
|-
| [[Gossamer Albatross|AeroVironment Gossamer Albatross]]
[[File:Gossamer Albatross II in flight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Human Powered
| Retired (1)
|
|
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]
|
|-
| [[NASA Helios|AeroVironment Helios]]
[[File:Helios in flight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[NASA ERAST Program|Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| NASA's Helios Prototype was an evolutionary [[Solar energy|solar]] and [[fuel cell]] [[system]] powered [[unmanned aerial vehicle|unmanned aircraft]].
|-
| [[NASA Pathfinder|AeroVironment Pathfinder]]
[[File:Pathfinder solar aircraft over Hawaii.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[NASA ERAST Program|Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| [[NASA Pathfinder|AeroVironment Pathfinder]] Prototype was an evolutionary [[Solar energy|solar]] and [[fuel cell]] [[system]] powered [[unmanned aerial vehicle|unmanned aircraft]].
|-
| [[NASA Pathfinder Plus|AeroVironment Pathfinder Plus]]
[[File:Pathfinder Plus solar aircraft over Hawaii.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[NASA ERAST Program|Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]
| Pathfinder Plus Prototype was an evolutionary [[Solar energy|solar]] and [[fuel cell]] [[system]] powered [[unmanned aerial vehicle|unmanned aircraft]].
|-
| [[AeroVironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye]]
[[File:Dragon Eye.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]]
| [[Ames Research Center]]
|
|-
|[[Eurocopter EC135]][[File:NASA Airbus H135 (T3).jpg|frameless|100px]]
|Rotorcraft
|
|Active (3)
|Delivery of the first two on September 30, 2020,<ref>https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/arrival-of-new-nasa-airbus-h135-helicopters-ksc/</ref> the third on March 11, 2021.<ref>https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/arrival-of-third-airbus-helicopter-completes-kennedys-security-fleet/</ref>
|[[Kennedy Space Center]]
|[[Kennedy Space Center]]
|
|-
| [[Beechcraft Super King Air]] (NASA 8)
[[File:Beech b300 kingair 350 m-five arp.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Transport Personnel
| Active (1)
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
| Carries employees from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia and Baltimore
|-
| [[Beechcraft Super King Air|Beechcraft King Air B-200]] (UC-12B)
[[File:NASA Langley's B200 King Air.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (2)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[T-34 Mentor|Beechcraft T-34C]]
[[File:Beech T-34C Turbo Mentor - GPN-2000-001989.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform & Photographic Chase
| Active (2)
|
| [[Glenn Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Bell UH-1 Iroquois|Bell UH-1H Iroquois]] (Huey)
[[File:Sniper in chopper (3527391492).jpg|100px]]
| Rotorcraft
|
| Retired
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|
|-
| [[LLRV|Bell Lunar Landing Research Vehicle LLRV]] [[File:LLRV 2.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (#2)
|
|-
| [[Bell X-1#X-1A|Bell X-1A Glamorous Glennis]] [[Image:Bell X-1 color.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1946
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum]]
|High-speed and high-altitude testing. First aircraft to break the [[sound barrier]] in level flight.Proved aerodynamic viability of thin wing sections.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|pp=5-7}}
|-
| [[Bell X-1#X-1A|Bell X-1B]] [[File:Bell X-1B USAF.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
|
|-
| [[Bell X-1#X-1E|Bell X-1E]] [[File:X-1E On Rogers Dry Lake With Collapsed Nose Gear - GPN-2000-000103.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Bell X-5]] [[Image:Bell-X5-Multiple.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1951
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| First aircraft to fly with [[Variable-sweep wing|variable geometry]] wings.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=11}}
|-
| [[Bell XV-15]]
[[File:Xv-15 inflight.jpg|100px]]
| V/STOL, Tilt Rotor
| Research,
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]]
| [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]]
|
|-
| [[Bellanca Skyrocket II]]
[[File:Bellanca Skyrocket II.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Civil Aircraft Test
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Boeing 737]], [[NASA 515]]
[[File:NASA TEST 737-100.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Terminal Area Productivity]] (TAP)
| Retired (1)
|1974-2003
| [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[Museum of Flight]]
|[[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.
|-
| [[Boeing 747|Boeing 747-100SR]]
[[File:NASA Shuttle Transport.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Shuttle Carrier Aircraft]]
| Retired (2)
| 1977–2012
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| 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. N911NA is currently on display at the [[Joe Davies Heritage Airpark]] at Palmdale Plant 42.
|-
| [[Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy|Boeing 747]], (SOFIA)
[[File:SOFIA ED10-0182-01 full.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Airborne observatory]], [[Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy]] (SOFIA)
| Retired (1)
| 1997–2022
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| Retired 2022<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA's Retired SOFIA Aircraft Finds New Home at Arizona Museum |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-retired-sofia-aircraft-finds-new-home-at-arizona-museum |website=NASA |access-date=9 December 2022 |date=8 December 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Boeing 757]]
[[File:NASA Aries 757 at Colorado Springs 2001 EL-1996-00055 flight.jpeg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, Advanced technology
| Retired (1)
|
|
|
| Ex–Eastern 757
|-
| [[Boeing B-52|Boeing B-52B]] [[File:TF-104G with NASA NB-52B in flight 1979.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Pima Air & Space Museum]] (003), [[Air Force Flight Test Center Museum]] (008)
| X-15 & X-43A launch from Boeing B-52 mothership
|-
| [[Boeing CH-47 Chinook#CH-47B|Boeing CH-47B Chinook]]
[[File:CH-47B (USA 66-19138 NASA 737).jpg|100px]]
| Rotorcraft
| Research, [[Variable Stability Research Rotorcraft project]]
| Retired (2)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
|
| 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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-3300/ch9.htm|access-date=January 9, 2010|chapter=Rotorcraft Research|title=SP–3300 Flight Research at Ames, 1940–1997|first1=Paul F.|last1=Borchers|first2=James A.|last2=Franklin|first3=Jay W.|last3=Fletcher|publisher=[[NASA]]|location=[[Moffett Field, California]]|date=1998}}</ref>
|-
| [[Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker]]
[[File:NASA parabolic flight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer, [[Reduced gravity aircraft]]
| Retired (2)
| 1973 - 2004
| [[Ellington Field|Ellington Field, Houston, Texas]]
| [[Ellington Field|Ellington Field, Houston, Texas]]
| [[United States Air Force|USAF]] KC–135As (designated N930NA and N931NA) Potential astronauts were exposed to simulated near–weightlessness. These aircraft are also known as [[Vomit Comet]]s.
|-
| [[Balls 8|Boeing NB-52B]], NASA [[B-52|NB-52B]]
[[File:X-38 Ship -2 Release from B-52 - GPN-2000-000196.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Test Platform
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Edwards Air Force Base]]
| 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.<ref>{{Cite web|editor-first=Marty|editor-last=Curry|date=May 7, 2008|title=NASA — NASA Dryden Fact Sheet — B-52B "Mothership" Launch Aircraft|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-005-DFRC.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]]|publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Gray|last=Creech|date=December 15, 2004|title=NASA — End of an Era: NASA's Famous B-52B Retires|url=http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/B-52B_retires.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]]|publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Boeing X-37]] [[Image:Boeing X-37B inside payload fairing before launch.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Active
| 2006 (drop test), 2010 (orbital flight)
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Reusable orbital spaceplane.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=47}}
|-
| [[Boeing X-40]] [[Image:Boeing X40A.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1998
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| 80% scale Space Maneuver Vehicle testbed.X-37 prototype.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=50}}
|-
| [[Boeing X-48]]
[[File:Boeing X-48C in flight (ED13-0056-01).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]], [[Closed wing#NASA.27s Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project|Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project]]<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/NewsReleases/2013/13-08.html|access-date=May 3, 2013|title=NASA - X-48 Project Completes Flight Research for Cleaner, Quieter Aircraft|publisher=NASA|date=April 12, 2013}}</ref>
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| 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.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=58}}
|-
| [[X-45A|Boeing X-45A]] [[File:Boeing X-45A UCAV.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum]] (#1 Blue), [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]] (#2 Red)
|
|-
| [[Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing]] [[Image:X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing NASA test aircraft EC03-0039-1.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 2002
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| [[Active Aeroelastic Wing]] testbed.<ref name="Jordan2006">{{cite news |url=http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123035661 |title=Active Aeroelastic Wing flight research vehicle receives X-53 designation |publisher=United States Air Force |first=Holly |last=Jordan |date=December 11, 2006 |access-date=August 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605105552/http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123035661 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| [[Boeing Vertol VZ-2]] (Model 76)
[[File:Vertol VZ-2 (Model 76) NASA GPN-2000-001732.jpg|100px]]
| V/STOL, Tilt Rotor
| Research,
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]] [[Paul E. Garber Facility]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-3300/ch8.htm|access-date=January 9, 2010|chapter=Boundary Layer Control, STOL, V/STOL Aircraft Research |title=SP-3300 Flight Research at Ames, 1940-1997|first1=Paul F.|last1=Borchers|first2=James A.|last2=Franklin|first3=Jay W.|last3=Fletcher|publisher=[[NASA]]|location=[[Moffett Field, California]]|date=1998}}</ref>
| Built in the United States in 1957 to investigate the [[tiltwing]] approach to [[VTOL|vertical take-off and landing]].
|-
| [[Cessna 206#Cessna 206H|Cessna 206H]]
[[File:Cessna206HStationair03.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Cessna Skymaster|Cessna 337 Skymaster]]
| Fixed Wing
| Civil Aircraft Test, [[Small Aircraft Transportation System]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Cessna T-37 Tweet|Cessna 318 T-37 Tweet]]
[[File:T-37 021203-O-9999G-003.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Civil Aircraft Test, [[Small Aircraft Transportation System]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Cirrus SR22]]
[[File:CirrusDesignSR22C-FJSH02.JPG|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Civil Aircraft Test, [[Small Aircraft Transportation System]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Convair 880]]
[[File:DAL-Convair-880inflight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Controlled Impact Demonstration|Controlled Impact Demonstration Program]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Convair 990]] (Galileo)
[[File:Convair 990 In flight EC93-41018-12.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Airborne observatory]], [[Galileo Observatory]]
| Destroyed (1), Retired (1) & Crashed (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Mojave Air and Space Port]]
| 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.
|-
| [[F-106 Delta Dart|Convair F-106 Delta Dart]] (QF–106A)
[[File:Whitcomb with f106 in 1991.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
|
| Retired
| 1986 - 1998
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Convair C-131 Samaritan]] (Convair CV-240)
[[File:C-131F Samaritan VR-30 in flight.JPEG|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Training, [[Reduced gravity aircraft]], [[Landsat|Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS)]]
| Retired (2)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]], [[Ellington Field|Ellington Field, Houston, TX]]
|
| Project Mercury astronauts flew aboard a C-131 Samaritan flying as the "vomit comet
|-
| [[Dassault Falcon 20|Dassault HU-25C Falcon]]
[[File:Dassault Falcon (Mystere) 20F-5 (PH-BPS).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo]] (Bisontennial) named in 1976
[[File:NASA C-8A AWJSRA on take-off.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[STOL]]
| Retired (1)
| 1970s late - early 1980s
| [[Ames Research Center]]
|
| 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).<ref name="Baugher2008">Baugher, Joseph F. [http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1963.html "1963 USAF Serial Numbers."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112063148/http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1963.html |date=January 12, 2009 }} ''USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers—1908 to Present'', 2008. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref><ref name = "Buser2006">Buser, Wayne E. [http://www.dhc4and5.org/Buffalo9.html "NASA Buffalos."] ''The deHavilland Caribou (DHC-4) and Buffalo (DHC-5) Website'', 2006. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref><ref name="Astrogram1">[http://history.arc.nasa.gov/Astrogram/astrogram_1972_5.pdf "First Augmentor Wing Aircraft Flight."] ''The Astrogram'', Volume XIV, Issue May 16, 11, 2005, pp. 1–2. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref><ref name = "DemandMedia1">{{cite web |url=http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N716NA |title=Photo Search Results: N716NA |work=Airliners.net |access-date=September 13, 2009}}</ref> 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 [[Industry Canada|Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce]] for STOL research.<ref name = "Astrogram1"/><ref name = "FlightInternational1">[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1972/1972%20-%201112.html "STOL Buffalo Flies."] ''Flight International'', Volume 101, Issue 3295, p. 658. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref>
|-
| [[de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo]] (QSRA)
[[File:NASA QSRA.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[STOL]], [[Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft]] program.<ref name = "Baugher2008"/><ref name = "Buser2006"/><ref name = "Norton2002">Norton, Bill. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8zl09uULN8IC ''STOL Progenitors: The Technology Path to a Large STOL Transport and the C-17A''.] Reston, VA: AIAA, 2002. {{ISBN|978-1-56347-576-4}}.</ref>{{rp|153}}<ref name = "GlobalSecurity2005">[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/c-8.htm "CV-7 / C-8A Buffalo / DHC-5."] ''GlobalSecurity.org''. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref><ref name = Shovlin1978>Shovlin, Michael D. and John A. Cochrane. [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790002863 1979002863.pdf "An Overview of the Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft Program."] ''nasa.gov'', 1978. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref><ref name = "DemandMedia2">[http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N715NA&distinct entry=true "N715NA."] ''Airliners.net'', Aviation Photos. Retrieved: September 13, 2009.</ref>
| Retired (1)
| 1970s late - early 1980s
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| The experimental wing was designed, fabricated and installed by Boeing was a [[Swept wing|swept]], [[Supercritical airfoil|supercritical]] design incorporating a [[boundary layer control system]].<ref name="GlobalSecurity2005"/><ref name=Shovlin1978/>{{rp|8}} Instead of the standard engines, this aircraft was powered by four prototype [[Honeywell ALF 502|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]].<ref name=Shovlin1978/>{{rp|9–10}} In 1980, this aircraft participated in carrier trials aboard {{USS|Kitty Hawk|CV-63|6}}, demonstrating STOL performance without the use of catapults or arrestor gear.<ref name = "Buser2006"/><ref name = "Norton2002"/>{{rp|154}}
|-
| [[de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]] (N607NA)
[[File:De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter, NASA AN0727923.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, aircraft icing
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Glenn Research Center]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://icebox.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518150125/http://icebox.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 18, 2007|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=NASA GRC Icing Branch Facilities|date=October 28, 2008|work=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
| [[Middle Tennessee State University]] at [[Murfreesboro Municipal Airport]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Middle Tennessee State University Department of Aerospace on LinkedIn: Not only are we growing our flight training fleet, we are also growing our… |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/middle-tennessee-state-university-department-of-aerospace_not-only-are-we-growing-our-flight-training-activity-6974025049578037248-qRAh |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=www.linkedin.com |language=en}}</ref>
|
|-
| [[Doak VZ-4]]
[[File:Doak VZ-4 in hovering flight.jpg|100px]]
| VTOL
| Research
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[U.S. Army Transportation Museum]]
|
|-
| [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]]
[[File:C-47H NASA in flight 1963.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Test
| Retired
|
| [[Ames Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Douglas DC-6|Douglas C-118 Liftmaster]]
[[File:Douglas C-118A Liftmaster (DC-6A), NASA AN2204136.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
|
|
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|
|
|-
| [[Douglas C-133 Cargomaster]]
[[File:C-133b-sanfrancsiscobay.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Heavy Transport Aircraft
| Retired
| 1966–1969
|
|
|
|-
| [[Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak]] [[File:Douglas Skystreak D-588-I.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of Naval Aviation]] (#1), [[Carolinas Aviation Museum]] (#3)
|
|-
| [[Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket]] [[File:D-558-II-NASA-E-1442.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Planes of Fame Museum]] (#1), [[National Air and Space Museum]] (#2), [[Antelope Valley College]] (#3)
|
|-
| [[Douglas F5D Skylancer]]
[[File:F5D in flight 1971.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer, Chase Plane
| Retired (2)
| 1961 - 1970
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum]] (802), [[Ontario Municipal Airport]] (708)
| 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/F-5D/HTML/EC71-02569.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=NASA Dryden F5D-1 Photo Collection|date=September 27, 2007|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]] Photo Collection|publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Douglas X-3 Stiletto]]
[[File:Douglas X-3 NASA E-17348.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]]
| Retired (1)
| 1952–1956
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| [[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]].{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=9}}
|-
| [[Dyke Delta]]
[[File:N18DW Dyke Delta.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Eiri-Avion PIK-20]]
[[File:Pik20E NASA.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, Sailplane
| Research, Lift & Aerodynamics
| Retired (1)
| 1981–1996
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[General Atomics ALTUS]]
[[File:NASA ALTUS UAV.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[NASA ERAST Program|Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)]]
| Retired? (2)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper]] (Predator-B IKHANA)
[[File:Ikhana Flies the Western States Fire Mission.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research Platform
| Active (1)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[F-16 Fighting Falcon|General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]]
[[File:N816NA GD F-16A Fighting Falcon NASA (9077111923).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research,
| Retired (2)
| 1988 - 1999
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Prototypes of the [[General Dynamics F-16XL|F-16XL]], designed as a competitor to the [[F-15E Strike Eagle]] in the [[United States Air Force|USAF's]] Enhanced Tactical Fighter program
|-
| [[General Dynamics F-16 VISTA]]
[[File:3 three thrust-vectoring aircraft.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Variability in flight simulator aircraft]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|Now in use by the [[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|USAF Test PIlot School]] under the designation [[General Dynamics X-62 VISTA|X-62]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-30 |title=NF-16D VISTA becomes X-62A |url=https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article/2714183/nf-16d-vista-becomes-x-62a/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.edwards.af.mil%2FNews%2FArticle-View%2FArticle%2F2714183%2Fnf-16d-vista-becomes-x-62a%2F |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Edwards Air Force Base |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| [[General Dynamics F-16XL]]
[[File:F-16xl.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research,
| Retired (2)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (1)
|
|-
| [[Grumman Gulfstream I]]
[[File:Nasa N5VX.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
|
| Retired (7)
|
|
| [[Johnson Space Center]]
|
|-
| [[Grumman X-29]]
[[File:Grumman-X29-InFlight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]], [[Forward swept wing]]
| Retired (2)
| 1984–1991
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
|
|-
| [[Grumman Gulfstream II]]
[[File:Gulfstream II - Shuttle Training Aircraft 948.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Shuttle Training Aircraft]] (STA)
| Active (4)
|
| NA
| [[Biggs Army Airfield#NASA El Paso Forward Operating Location|El Paso Forward Operating Location]], [[Ellington Field|Ellington Field, Houston, Texas]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/preparingtravel/rtf_week5_sta.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=NASA - Test Drive: Shuttle Training Aircraft Preps Astronauts for Landing|date=March 3, 2005|work=[[NASA]]}}</ref> (NASA C-11A)
|
|-
| [[Gulfstream G-III]]
[[File:NASA C-20A 30502.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]], [[Unmanned Air Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar]] (UAVSAR)
| Active (1)
| 2003 - Today
| [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (NASA C–20A)
| 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 [[UAVSAR|Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar]] (UAVSAR) program, the [[Access 5]] program alongside [[Scaled Composites Proteus]] aircraft, and as a test bed to develop [[Airborne collision avoidance system|collision avoidance]] systems and procedures.<ref>{{Cite web|editor-first=Marty|editor-last=Curry|date=March 1, 2008|title=Gulfstream III Multi-Role Cooperative Research Platform|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/research/G-III/index.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]]|publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Gulfstream G-III]], NASA one
[[File:NASA C-20A 30502.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Business jet]] of the [[Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration|NASA Administrator]]
| Active (1)
| 2003 - 2008
| NA
|
| 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Day in the Life of NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe|newspaper=[[SpaceRef.com]]|publisher=[[SpaceRef Interactive]]|first=Keith|last=Cowing|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=939|date=March 22, 2004}}</ref> NASA now shares a plane with [[FAA]].
|-
| [[Gulfstream X-54]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Proposed
|
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Hawker Siddeley P.1127]]
[[File:Hawker Siddeley P.1127 in flight at NASA Langley 1968 (cropped).jpeg|100px]]
| V/STOL
|
| Retired
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Kreider-Reisner XC-31]]
[[File:Kreider-Reisner XC-31 USAF.JPG|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, DeIcing
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Learjet 23]]
[[File:Learjet 23 der NASA.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Business jet]]
| ?
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Learjet 24]]
[[File:NASA DFRC Lear 24 in flight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Business jet]]
|
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Lear Jet Airborne Observatory<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/X-Press/1998/Nov30/learjet.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030308004426/http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/X-Press/1998/Nov30/learjet.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 8, 2003 |title=Lear Jet gets new cameras |work=The Dryden X-Press |publisher=NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center |first=Gray |last=Creech |volume=40 |issue=22 |date=November 30, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/58474723/NASA-Facts-Lear-Jet-Flight-Research-Support-Aircraft |title=Lear Jet Flight Research Support Aircraft |publisher=NASA/Dryden Flight Flight Research Center |date=1998 |id=FS-1998-11-057}}</ref>
|-
| [[Learjet 25]]
[[File:Learjet 25 der NASA.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Business jet]]
| Active
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|
|-
| [[Learjet 28]]
[[File:Learjet 28-29.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Business jet]]
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[LTV XC-142|Ling-Temco-Vought LTV XC-142]]
[[File:Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A.jpg|100px]]
| V/STOL, Tilt Wing
| Research, Transport aircraft
| Retired (1)
| 1966–1970
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[C-5 Galaxy|Lockheed C-5 Galaxy]]
[[File:Usaf.c5.galaxy.750pix.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Heavy transport aircraft
| Active (2)
|
|
|
| Flown by [[United States Air Force|USAF]] crews.
|-
| [[Lockheed Constellation|Lockheed C-121 Starliner]]
[[File:C-69.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
|
| Retired
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
| [[Lockheed C-141A Starlifter]]
[[File:NASA C-141A KAO.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| [[Airborne observatory]], [[Kuiper Airborne Observatory]]
| Retired (1)
| 1974 - 1995
| [[Ames Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Lockheed F-104|Lockheed F-104A Starfighter]] [[File:F-104A NACA at Edwards AFB 1960.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum]] (818) (N818NA), [[Air Force Flight Test Center Museum]] (N820NA) (0790)
|
|-
| [[Lockheed F-104|Lockheed F-104B Starfighter]] [[File:Lockheed F-104B Starfighter ‘71303 - FG-303’ (30054926701).jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[McClellan AFB]] (N819NA)
|
|-
| [[Lockheed F-104|Lockheed F-104G Starfighter]] [[File:Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Estrella Warbird Museum]] (N824NA), [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] (N826NA)
|
|-
| [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter|Lockheed F-104N Starfighter]] [[File:N812NA Lockheed F-104N Starfighter NASA (9077101093).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Chase
| Retired (6) & Crashed (1)
| 1963 - 1995
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University]] (N811NA) (4045), [[Lockheed Martin]], Palmdale, CA (N812NA)
| One of these aircraft, piloted by [[Joseph Albert Walker|Joe Walker]], collided with the [[XB-70 Valkyrie]] experimental bomber on June 8, 1966, killing Walker.
|-
| [[Lockheed JetStar]]
[[File:N814NA Lockheed Jetstar NASA (9079513730).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform
| Retired (1)
| 1964-1989<ref>{{cite web|language=en |title=JetStar |url=https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/jetstar-3/ |website=[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration|NASA]]}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[C-130 Hercules|Lockheed NC-130B Hercules]]
[[File:NASA NC-130B N707NA in flight (AC91-0367-24).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Landsat|Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS)]]
| Active (1)
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|
|-
| [[P-3 Orion|Lockheed P-3 Orion]]
[[File:P-3 on the Ramp in Kangerlussuaq (5589976906).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (1)
|
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
| [[Wallops Flight Facility]]
|
|-
| [[S-3 Viking|Lockheed S-3 Viking]]
[[File:NASA Glenn Research Center S-3B.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform
| Retired
|
| [[Glenn Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[SR-71 Blackbird|Lockheed SR-71]]
[[File:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer
| Retired (1)
| 1991 - 1999
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Pima Air Museum]]
| 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.<ref name="NASA/DFRC SR-71 Blackbird">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-030-DFRC.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=NASA/DFRC SR-71 Blackbird|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]]|publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref> All other Blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few [[Lockheed D-21/M-21|D-21]] drones retained by the NASA Dryden Research Center.<ref name="Jenkins 2001">{{Cite book |title=Lockheed Secret Projects: Inside the Skunk Works |publisher=[[Zenith Imprint]] |location=[[St. Paul, Minnesota]] |first=Dennis R. |last=Jenkins |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-7603-0914-8}}</ref>
|-
| [[SR-71 Blackbird|Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer
| Retired (1)
| 1991 - 1999
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| 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.<ref name="NASA/DFRC SR-71 Blackbird"/> All other Blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few [[Lockheed D-21/M-21|D-21]] drones retained by the NASA [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]].<ref name="Jenkins 2001"/>
|-
| [[SR-71 Blackbird|Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer
| Retired (1)
| 1991 - 1999
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum]]
| 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.<ref name="NASA/DFRC SR-71 Blackbird"/> All other Blackbirds have been moved to museums except for the two SR-71s and a few [[Lockheed D-21/M-21|D-21]] drones retained by the NASA [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]].<ref name="Jenkins 2001"/>
|-
| [[Lockheed U-2|Lockheed U-2 "Dragon Lady"]]
[[File:Usaf.u2.750pix.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]], [[Landsat|Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS)]], High Altitude
| Active (2)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Modified to the ER-2 (Earth Resources-2) standard
|-
| [[Lockheed YF-12]]
[[File:YF-12A.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research,
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]], [[Glenn Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
|
|-
| [[Lockheed YO-3|Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star]]
[[File:Lockheed YO-3.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Lockheed Martin X-33|X-33 Venture Star]] [[Image:X-33 Venture Star in Orbit.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired (1)
| Prototype never completed
| [[Lockheed Martin]]
|
| Half-scale [[reusable launch vehicle]] prototype.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=42}}
|-
| [[X-44 MANTA|Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| Cancelled
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| [[F-22]]-based Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft thrust vectoring testbed.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=54}}
|-
| [[Lockheed Martin X-56]] (MUTT) [[File:Lockheed Martin X-56A.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research Platform, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]], Multi-Utility Technology Testbed
| Retired (1)
| 2012
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Active flutter suppression and gust load alleviation technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft.<ref name="Norris2012">{{cite news |url=http://aviationweek.com/awin/usaf-reveals-latest-x-plane-x-56a |title=USAF Reveals Latest X-Plane: X-56A |work=[[Aviation Week]] |first=Guy |last=Norris |date=February 1, 2012 |access-date=August 17, 2014}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST]] [[File:Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]]
| In Development (1)
| 2022
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Low boom quiet super sonic demonstrator.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-x-59-quiet-supersonic-research-aircraft-cleared-for-final-assembly| access-date=January 1, 2021 |title=NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly| date=December 16, 2019| publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra|Martin WB-57 Canberra]]
[[File:928 Desktop.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform - [[Airborne Science Program]], [[Landsat|Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS)]] High Altitude
| Active (3)
|
| [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]]
| [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]]
| [[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)
|-
| [[Martin-Marietta X-24|Martin-Marietta X-24A]] [[Image:X24.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| Low-speed [[lifting body]] handling testbed.Lifting body aerodynamic shape trials.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|pp=31-32}}
|-
| [[Martin-Marietta X-24|Martin-Marietta X-24B]] [[Image:X24B.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1973
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| Low-speed [[lifting body]] handling testbed.Lifting body aerodynamic shape trials.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|pp=31-32}}
|-
| [[Breguet 941|McDonnell 188]] (Breguet 941)
[[File:McDonnell 188.jpg|100px]]
| STOL
|
| Retired (1)
| 1964 - 1965
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|McDonnell conducted demonstrations with the prototype of French [[Breguet Aviation|Breguet]] plane from June 9, 1964, to April 16, 1965. The aircraft was evaluated by both NASA and the US military
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas DC-8]]
[[File:NASA's McDonnell Douglas DC-8 Airborne Laboratory.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Retired <ref>{{cite web |last1=Aguirre |first1=Elena |title=NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire |url=https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-dc-8-completes-final-mission-set-to-retire/ |website=NASA |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref>
|1987-2024
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas C-9|McDonnell Douglas C-9 Skytrain II]]
[[File:DC-9 reduced-gravity training aircraft - going up.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Training, [[Reduced gravity aircraft]]
| Active (1)
| 2005 - TBD
| [[Johnson Space Center]]
|
| Ex-[[United States Navy|USN C-9B]]
|-
| [[F-4 Phantom II|McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II]]
[[File:F-4B VMFA-314 1968.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Chase Plane
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
|
| X-15 program, [[Lifting body]] flights (also collected biomedical data and used to see if sonic booms could be used as a weapon)
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas F-15|McDonnell Douglas F-15A]] RPRV/SRV [[File:67 FS F-15 Eagle in action at Red Flag–Alaska.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD]]
[[File:F15smtd01.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, advanced propulsion concepts
| Retired (1)
| 1993 – 1999 and IFCS programs 2002 – TBD
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]] [[F-15S/MTD]]
| 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.
|-
| [[F-15B|McDonnell Douglas F-15B]] [[File:NASA F-15B 836 with Quiet Spike.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Active (1) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-055-DFRC.html| access-date=April 11, 2020 |title=NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: F-15B Aeronautics Research Test Bed| date=June 3, 2015| first=Yvonne| last=Gibbs |author-link=Yvonne Gibbs | publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[F-15D|McDonnell Douglas F-15D]] [[File:F-15D 897 Flight over Mojave Desert.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Active (2) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/aircraft/F-15D/index.html| access-date=April 11, 2020 |title=F-15D Support Aircraft| date=June 3, 2015| publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet]] [[File:NASA's_F-A-18_Hornets.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Active (3) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-006-DFRC.html| access-date=January 1, 2021 |title=F/A=18 Support Aircraft| date=November 5, 2015| publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet]] (842NA)
[[File:FA18 LEX.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research
| [[Retired]]
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Clear Channel Stadium]]
|
|-
| [[High Alpha Research Vehicle|McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 HARV]]
[[File:FA18 LEX.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, High Alpha Research Vehicle
| [[Retired]]
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Virginia Air and Space Center]] (840NA)
|
|-
| [[McDonnell Douglas X-36]] [[Image:Boeing-X36-InFlight.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1997
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| 28% scale [[Tailless aircraft|tailless fighter]] testbed.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=46}}
|-
| [[McCulloch J-2]]
[[File:McCulloch J-2 Aero Super Gyroplane - GPN-2000-001904.jpg|100px]]
| Rotorcraft
| Civil Test
| Retired? (1)
| 1973
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[NASA X-43|Micro Craft X-43 Hyper-X]] [[Image:X-43 NASA.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 2001
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| [[Scramjet]] hypersonic testbed (Mach 9.68) (110,000&nbsp;ft).{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=53}}
|-
| [[NASA X-57]] [[Image:X57-Maxwell-CGI (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| In Development (1)
| 2021
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| Fully electric powered aircraft demonstrator.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-109.html| access-date=January 1, 2021 |title=NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: NASA X-57 Maxwell| date=September 13, 2018| publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[MIT Daedalus]]
[[File:Daedalus-human-powered-aircraft.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Human Powered
| Retired (1)
| 1988
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Museum of Science (Boston)]]
|
|-
| [[NASA AD-1]]
[[Image:NASA AD-1 in flight.jpg|100px|NASA AD-1]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Oblique Wing
| Retired (1)
| 1979 - 1982
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Hiller Aviation Museum]]
| Successfully demonstrated an aircraft [[wing]] that could be pivoted obliquely from zero to 60 degrees during flight.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 7, 2008|first=Marty|last=Curry|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]]|publisher=[[NASA]]|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-019-DFRC.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=NASA — NASA Dryden Fact Sheet — AD–1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112093500/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-019-DFRC.html|archive-date=January 12, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|-
| [[NASA Hyper III]]
[[File:Hyper III at Dryden 1969.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
|
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[NASA Mini-Sniffer]]
[[File:Mini-Sniffer III on Lakebed.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, atmosphere, high altitude
| Retired (3)
| 1975 - 1982
| [[Langley Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[NASA M2-F1]]
[[Image:NASA M2-F1.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Model
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| 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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=R. Dale|first2=Darlene|last2=Lister|date=2002|url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980169231.pdf|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=Wingless Flight: The Lifting body Story|publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|isbn=0-8131-9026-6}}</ref>
|-
| [[NASA Paresev]]
[[File:Paresev 1-B in Tow Flight - GPN-2000-000212.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, Paraglider
| Research, Space Capsule Safety (1)
| Retired (4)
| 1961 - 1965
|
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]
| Was designed to study the ability of the [[Rogallo wing]], also called ''Parawing'', to descend a payload such as the [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] space capsule safely from high altitude to ground.<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=[[Aviation News]] |publisher=[[HPC Publishing]] |url=http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/Parasev.html |access-date=January 9, 2010 |title=The Rogallo Parasev: A revolution in flying wings |date=March 2007 |issue=March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927120105/http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/Parasev.html |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|first=Mark|last=Wade|date=July 31, 2008|title=FIRST Re-entry glider|url=http://www.astronautix.com/craft/firlider.htm|access-date=January 9, 2010|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116235419/http://astronautix.com/craft/firlider.htm|archive-date=January 16, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Specifically, the Paresev was a test vehicle used to learn how to control this paraglider for a safe landing at a normal [[airfield]].
|-
| [[NASA X-43]]
[[File:X-43A.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]]
| Retired (3)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[North American AJ Savage]]
[[File:AJ-1 in flight over California 1950.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer, [[Reduced gravity aircraft]]
| Retired (3)
| 1960 - TBD
|
|
|
|-
| [[North American A3J-1 Vigilante]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research - Supersonic transport program
| Retired (3)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|A3J-1 147858 to NASA as 858. Brought from NAS Patuxent River and spent one year at in support of supersonic transport program.
|-
| [[North American F-82 Twin Mustang]]
[[File:North American XP-82 Twin Mustang 44-83887.Color.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Handling & Performance
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[North American F-86 Sabre]]
[[File:NACA North American F-86F Sabre at the Rogers Dry Lakebed, California (USA), in 1954 (E-1326).jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Chase
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[North American F-100 Super Sabre]]
[[File:JF-100C NASA at Edwards AFB 1962.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[North American OV-10 Bronco]]
[[File:NASA OV-10.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Noise & Wave Turbulence
| Retired
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[North American X-15]] (Rocket plane)
[[File:X-15 in flight.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]], Hypersonic Flight
| Retired (1)
| 1959 - 1968
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]
| Conceived by [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]], three were built and explored the regime of hypersonic flight, often regarded as a direct predecessor to the [[Space Shuttle]]
|-
| [[X-15A-2|North American X-15A-2]] [[File:X-15 in flight.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
|
|-
|-
| [[XB-70 Valkyrie|North American XB-70A Valkyrie]]
[[File:North American XB-70 in flight ECN-2128.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research,
| Retired (1), Crashed (1)
| 1965 - 1969
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| 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 [[Boeing 2707|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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 9, 2009 |first=Marty|last=Curry|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-084-DFRC.html|access-date=January 9, 2010|title=NASA — XB–70A Valkyrie|work=[[Dryden Flight Research Center]]|publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[North American YF-93]]
[[File:North American YF-93A on lakebed.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research,
| Retired (2)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[North American F-107]] [[File:NAA XF-107A.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Pima Air and Space Museum]] (#1) (55–5118)
|
|-
| [[Northrop HL-10]]
[[File:Northrop HL-10.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Lifting body]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Northrop M2-F2]]
[[File:Northrop M2-F2.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Lifting body]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Northrop M2-F3]]
[[File:Northrop M2-F3.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Lifting body]]
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]
|
|-
| [[T-38 Talon|Northrop T-38 Talon]]
[[File:Northrop T-38A Talon - GPN-2000-001906.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Trainer
| Active, Retired
| 1960s - Today
|
| [[Biggs Army Airfield#NASA El Paso Forward Operating Location|El Paso Forward Operating Location]], [[Ellington Field|Ellington Field, Houston, Texas]]
| Used as a jet trainer for its astronauts since the 1960s.
|-
| [[X-4 Bantam|Northrop X-4 Bantam]] [[Image:Northrop-X4-Bantam.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1948
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Air Force Flight Test Center Museum#Air Force Flight Test Museum]]
| Evaluated handling characteristics of [[tailless aircraft]] in the [[transonic]] speed region.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=10}}
|-
| [[F-5E|Northrop-Grumman F-5E]] modified
[[File:F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration aircraft.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration]] (SSBD)
| Retired (1)
| 2003–2007
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[Langley Research Center]]
| [[Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum]]
| 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/sonicboom_techwed_042104.html|access-date=January 10, 2010|title=Shushing Sonic Booms: Changing the Shape of Supersonic Planes|newspaper=[[Space.com]]|publisher=[[Imaginova]]|first=Tariq|last=Malik|date=April 21, 2004}}</ref>
|-
| [[Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk]] [[File:NASA Global Hawk.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (2)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
|-
| [[Orbital Sciences X-34]] [[Image:Orbital Sciences X34.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| Never flew
|
| [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]]
| Reusable unmanned space plane testbed.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=43}}
|-
| [[OMAC Laser 300]]
[[File:OMAC Laser 300.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Civil Test
| Retired (3)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
|-
| [[Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche]] [[File:Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche landing.jpg|100px]]
|
|
| Retired
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Kings River Community College]] (808NA)
|
|-
| [[Pitcairn PAA-1]]
[[File:Pitcairn Autogiro NASA GPN-2000-001990.jpg|100px]]
| V/STOL
| Research,
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Rockwell HiMAT|Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT]]
[[File:HIMAT.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research, Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology
| Retired (2)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Air and Space Museum|Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]
|
|-
| [[Rockwell-MBB X-31]]
[[File:Rockwell-MBB X-31 landing.JPG|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]], Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability (EFM)
| Retired (1), Crashed (2)
|
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]], [[European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Company]]
| Oberschleißheim Museum (part of the [[Deutsches Museum]])
|
|-
| [[Rutan VariEze]]
[[File:Rutan.variEze.g-veze.arp.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Civil Air
| Active
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane]]
[[File:VZ-3RY flaps down on runway.jpg|100px]]
| VTOL
| Experimental VTOL aircraft
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Moffett Federal Airfield]]
| [[United States Army Aviation Museum]]
|
|-
| [[XV-5 Vertifan|Ryan XV-5 Vertifan]]
[[File:XV-5-ramp.jpg|100px]]
| V/STOL
| Research, Rescue Research
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]]
| [[United States Army Aviation Museum]]
|
|-
| [[NASA X-38|Scaled Composites X-38]] [[Image:ISS Crew Return Vehicle.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired (2)
| 1999
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum]] (V-131), [[Strategic Air and Space Museum]](V-132)
| Lifting body [[Crew Return Vehicle]] demonstrator.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=48}}
|-
| [[Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft (SIERRA)]]
[[File:SIERRA-Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Crashed (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]]
| Lost at Sea
|
|-
| [[X-26 Frigate|Schweizer X-26 Frigate]] [[Image:X-26 sailplane.jpg|100px]]
|
| Research, [[List of X-planes|X-Planes]],
| Retired
| 1967
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[National Soaring Museum]] (1-36)
| Training [[glider aircraft|glider]] for [[Dutch roll|yaw-roll coupling]]Quiet [[observation plane|observation aircraft]] testbed.{{sfn|Jenkins|Landis|Miller|2003|p=34}}
|-
| [[CH-54 Tarhe|Sikorsky CH-54B Tarhe]]
[[File:Sikorsky Skycrane carrying parachute bomb c.jpg|100px]]
| Rotorcraft
| Utility
| Retired (1)
| 18 Mar 1972 - 15 Jan 1974
| [[Langley Research Center]]
| Firefighting helicopter
| NASA s/n was NASA 539. Now owned by US Leaseco Inc Aurora,OR,US https://www.helis.com/database/cn/5060/
|-
| [[Sikorsky H-19]]
[[File:Sikorsky S-55 inflight c.jpg|100px]]
| Rotorcraft
| Utility
| Retired (1)
|
| [[Langley Research Center]]
|
|
|-
| [[Sikorsky S-72]], RSRA
[[File:NASA RSRA in flight.jpg|100px]]
| V/STOL
| Research,
| Retired (2)
| 1979-?
| [[Ames Research Center]], [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
|
| RSRA, Rotor Systems Research Aircraft
|-
| [[F-8 Crusader|Vought F-8 Crusader]] (Fly by Wire)
[[File:1972-10-07 VoughtF-8 FlyByWire.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, [[Fly-by-wire#Digital systems|Digital Fly–By–Wire]] Control System
| Retired (1)
| 1970s
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| Technology has become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
|-
| [[F-8 Crusader|Vought F-8 Crusader]] (Supercritical wing)
[[File:NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft - GPN-2000-002001.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research Platform, Supercritical wing
| Retired (1)
| 1970s
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| [[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]
| Technology has become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
|-
| [[XF8U-3 Crusader III|Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III]]
[[File:XF8U-3 Crusader III.jpg|100px]]
| Fixed Wing
| Research, Atmospheric Platform
| Retired (3)
| 1958-?
|
|
|
|-
| [[eXperimental Sensor-Controller Aerial Vehicle (XSCAV)]]
| Fixed Wing, UAV
| Research Platform, [[Airborne Science Program]]
| Active (1)
|
| [[Ames Research Center]]
| [[Ames Research Center]]
|
|-
|}


== References ==
*[[T-34 Mentor|Beechcraft T-34 Mentor]]. Used mainly as a chase plane but also used for research.
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
*[[Beechcraft Super King Air]]. Used to shuttle personnel between the Ames and Dyrden Research Centers.
*[[Boeing 747]]. Two 747s, one registered N905NA (which is a 747-100 model that was acquired from[[American Airlines]] in 1974) and a second registered N911NA (a 747-100SR model purchased from[[Japan Airlines]] in 1988) are currently used by NASA as [[Shuttle Carrier Aircraft]]. A third (a 747SP model purchased from [[United Airlines]] in 1996) has been used since 2007 as [[SOFIA]].
*[[Boeing 757]]. Ex-Eastern Airlines 757 used as an advanced technology test platfrom.
*[[CH-47 Chinook|Boeing CH-47B]]. Used for the Variable-Stability Research Rotor Craft project. 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 converted to CH-47D.
*[[KC-135 Stratotanker|Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker]]. Two ex-[[United States Air Force|USAF]] KC-135As (designated N930NA and N931NA) were used by NASA from 1973 to 2004 for the Reduced Gravity Research Program, where potential astronauts are exposed to simulated near-weightlessness. These aircraft are also known as [[Vomit Comet]]s.
*[[Convair 880]] Used for Anti-Misting Kerosene Fuel.
*[[Convair 990]]. Nicknamed Galileo, it was used as an airborne laboratory for research in aeronautics, astronautics, astronomy, and earth observations. The Galileo I aircraft was lost in a mid-air collision in 1973. The Galileo II continued service into the 1980s.
*[[F-106 Delta Dart|Convair F-106 Delta Dart]]. From 1986 a handful of F-106As, redesignated QF-106A, were retained by NASA for test purposes, the last being retired in 1998.
*[[Cirrus SR22]]. Used for research and development in [[Small Aircraft Transportation System]].
[[File:NASA TEST 737-100.jpg|thumb|right|A NASA [[Boeing 737-100]] during braking test run on snow-covereed runway at [[Brunswick Naval Air Station]].]]
*[[de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo|de Havilland Canada Bisontennial]]. Used for [[STOL]] research and the Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft programe
*[[de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]]
*[[Douglas DC-3]]
*[[Douglas DC-8]]. Operated by the University of North Dakota used for atmospheric research.
*[[Douglas DC-6|Douglas C-118 Liftmaster]]
*[[F5D Skylancer|Douglas F5D Skylancer]]. Used as a testbed for supersonic research and to train pilots for the [[X-20 Dyna-Soar]] program.
*[[F-104 Starfighter|Fokker F-104 Starfighter]]. Three F-104Gs delivered to NASA in 1963 for use as high speed chase aircraft and redesignated F-104N. One of these aircraft, piloted by [[Joseph Albert Walker|Joe Walker]], collided with the [[XB-70 Valkyrie]] experimental bomber on June 8, 1966, killing Walker. NASA retired its last F-104 in 1995.
*[[F-16 Fighting Falcon|General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Eagle]]. From 1988 until 1999, 2 prototypes of the [[General Dynamics F-16XL|F-16XL]], designed as a competitor to the [[F-15E Strike Eagle]] in the [[United States Air Force|USAF's]] Enhanced Tactical Fighter program, were taken in hand by NASA for aeronautical research.
[[Image:Centurion-EC98-44822-5.jpg|thumb|left|Centurion takes off from Dryden in December, 1998]]
*[[Shuttle Training Aircraft|Grumman C-11A Shuttle Training Aircraft]] - 4 [[Grumman Gulfstream II]]'s are used as advance trainers; they are stationed at [[NASA Forward Operating Location]] in [[El Paso]], [[Texas]] and rotated through [[Ellington Field]].
*[[Grumman Gulfstream I]]
*[[Gulfstream G-III]] - business jet for the [[Administrator of NASA]], called [[NASA one]], it has a seating capacity of 12 people
*[[Learjet 23]]
*[[Learjet 24]]
*[[Learjet 25]]
*[[LTV XC-142|Ling-Temco-Vought LTV XC-142]]. Experimental VTOL Tiltwing transport aircraft.
*[[Lockheed Constellation| Lockheed C-121 Starliner]]
*[[C-130 Hercules|Lockheed NC-130B Hercules]]. Used for the Earth Survey Programme.
*[[C-141 Starlifter|Lockheed C-141 Starlifter]]. In the early 1960s a single C-141A was procured by NASA for use as a heavy transport aircraft. The C-141A [[Kuiper Airborne Observatory]], was operated from 1974 to 1995.
*[[C-5 Galaxy|Lockheed C-5 Galaxy]]. Two specially designed C-5Cs were procured by NASA for use as a heavy transport aircraft and flown by [[United States Air Force|USAF]] crews.
*[[Lockheed JetStar]]
*[[P-3 Orion|Lockheed P-3 Orion]]. NASA currently uses the P-3 as an earth-science suborbital research platform and is located at [[Goddard Space Flight Center]]'s [[Wallops Flight Facility]], Virginia.
*[[S-3 Viking|Lockheed S-3 Viking]]. Upgraded to a state of the art research platform.
*[[SR-71 Blackbird|Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird]]. Two SR-71Bs were used as trainers by NASA between 1991 and 1999.
*[[Lockheed U-2|Lockheed U-2 "Dragon Lady"]]. Two U-2s have been modified to the ER-2 (Earth Resources -2) standard and are currently in use at [[Dryden Flight Research Center]] for use in various high altitude research projects.
*[[Lockheed YO-3|Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star]]. Used in rotorcraft research
*[[B-57 Canberra|Martin B-57 Canberra]]. Two Martin WB-57Fs are currently operating from [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]] as high altitude research platforms for atmospheric research and [[Space Shuttle]]monitoring.
*[[McDonnell Douglas C-9|McDonnell Douglas C-9 Skytrain II]]. One ex-[[United States Navy|USN]] C-9B was taken in hand in 2005 to replace the famous KC-135s used in NASA's Reduced Gravity Research Program.
*[[F-4 Phantom II|McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II]]. It was used as a chase plaen for the X-15 program and for the lifting body flights. It was also used ot collect biomedical data and used to see if sonic booms could be used as a weapon.
*[[F-15 Eagle|McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle]]. One modified ex-[[United States Air Force|USAF]] F-15, the [[F-15S/MTD]], has been in use as a technology demonstrator and technology research aircraft since 1993, being used in the ACTIVE (1993-1999) and IFCS (2002-) programs.
*[[NASA AD-1]]
*[[NASA M2-F1]]. Light weight lifting body
*[[Paresev|NASA Paresev]]. The Paresev program included the Paresev 1B designed by Charles Richard and flown by eight pilots was a hanging-pilot glider; the ornamental lines of the wing of the Paresev 1B along with influence from the [[Fleep]] and other related actions and patents by Francis M. Rogallo gave foundation to the large [[hang glider]]s, [[ultralight trike]]s, and [[ultralight aircraft]]developments from 1960 forward; in count, this development has been outnumbering all other manned aircraft in the world.
*[[OV-10 Bronco|North America OV-10 Bronco]]
*[[North American X-15]]. Rocket plane which flew from 1959 to 1968. Conceived by [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]], three were built and explored the regime of hypersonic flight. It is often regarded as a direct predecessor to the [[Space Shuttle]].
*[[XB-70 Valkyrie|North American XB-70 Valkyrie]]. Used in the research of sonic booms and also the study of structural dynamics.
*[[Northrop HL-10]]
*[[Northrop M2-F2]]
*[[Northrop M2-F3]]
*[[T-38 Talon|Northrop T-38 Talon]]. A number of T-38As have been used by NASA as jet trainers for its astronauts since the 1960s. NASA's T-38 fleet is housed primarily at [[Ellington Field]] in [[Houston, Texas]].
*[[Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration|Northrop Grumman Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration]]. A modified [[Northrop F-5|Northrop F-5E Tiger II]] used to demonstrate the ability to control and reduce sonic booms
*[[Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology|Rockwell Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology]]. Used to develop new technology for future fighter aircraft.
*[[XV-5 Vertifan|Ryan XV-5 Vertifan]]. Experimental jet powered VTOL aircraft
*[[Sikorsky S-72]]. An experimental hybrid helicopter/fixed-wing aircraft.
*[[F-8 Crusader|Vought F-8 Crusader]]. Several F-8Cs were used by NASA in the early 1970s to test such features as[[Aircraft flight control systems#Digital fly-by-wire FCS|Digital Fly-By-Wire]] Control System and supercritical wings, which have become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
*[[XF8U-3 Crusader III|Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III]]. Used for atmospheric testing.


== See also ==
=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425225303/https://history.nasa.gov/monograph31.pdf |title=American X-Vehicles: An Inventory—X-1 to X-50 |series=Monographs in Aerospace History No. 31 |publisher=NASA |first1=Dennis R. |last1=Jenkins |first2=Tony |last2=Landis |first3=Jay |last3=Miller |date=June 2003 |id=SP-2003-4531 |oclc=68623213}}
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Latest revision as of 06:58, 27 December 2024

This is a list of NASA aircraft. Throughout its history NASA has used several different types of aircraft on a permanent, semi-permanent, or short-term basis. These aircraft are usually surplus, but in a few cases are newly built, military aircraft.

Current aircraft

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Aircraft Number in service Introduced Research Center
Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
1
 Johnson Space Center
Aeromot TG-14
1
 Armstrong Flight Research Center
Airbus H135
3
 Kennedy Space Center
Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
3
 Armstrong Flight Research Center (1), Glenn Research Center (2)
Beechcraft B-200
3
 Armstrong Flight Research Center (1), Langley Research Center (2)
Cirrus SR22
1
 Langley Research Center
Columbia LC-40
1
 Langley Research Center
DHC-6 Twin Otter
1
 Glenn Research Center
Dassault Falcon HU-25 Guardian
1
 Langley Research Center
Gulfstream C-20A
1
2008
 Armstrong Flight Research Center
Gulfstream III
4
2012
 Armstrong Flight Research Center (2), Langley Research Center (1), Johnson Space Center (1)
Gulfstream V
1
2012
 Johnson Space Center
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
1
 Wallops Flight Facility
Lockheed P-3 Orion
1
1991
 Wallops Flight Facility
Lockheed ER-2
2
1981
 Armstrong Flight Research Center
Martin WB-57 Canberra
3
 Johnson Space Center
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
3
 Armstrong Flight Research Center
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
3
 Armstrong Flight Research Center
Northrop T-38 Talon
20
 Johnson Space Center

Aircraft

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Aircraft Type Use Status (Qty) Dates From To Research Centers Current Location Comments
Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

Fixed Wing Heavy transport aircraft Active (1) N/A El Paso Forward Operating Location
Aerojet General X-8 Rocket Research, X-Planes, Upper air research and sounding[1] Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center
AeroVironment Centurion

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Centurion was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
AeroVironment Gossamer Albatross

Fixed Wing Research, Human Powered Retired (1) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
AeroVironment Helios

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center NASA's Helios Prototype was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
AeroVironment Pathfinder

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center AeroVironment Pathfinder Prototype was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
AeroVironment Pathfinder Plus

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Pathfinder Plus Prototype was an evolutionary solar and fuel cell system powered unmanned aircraft.
AeroVironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye

Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (1) Ames Research Center Ames Research Center
Eurocopter EC135 Rotorcraft Active (3) Delivery of the first two on September 30, 2020,[2] the third on March 11, 2021.[3] Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center
Beechcraft Super King Air (NASA 8)

Fixed Wing Transport Personnel Active (1) Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility Carries employees from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia and Baltimore
Beechcraft King Air B-200 (UC-12B)

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (2) Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center
Beechcraft T-34C

Fixed Wing Research Platform & Photographic Chase Active (2) Glenn Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Wallops Flight Facility, Armstrong Flight Research Center
Bell UH-1H Iroquois (Huey)

Rotorcraft Retired Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility
Bell Lunar Landing Research Vehicle LLRV Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center (#2)
Bell X-1A Glamorous Glennis Research, X-Planes, Retired 1946 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Air and Space Museum High-speed and high-altitude testing. First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.Proved aerodynamic viability of thin wing sections.[4]
Bell X-1B Research, X-Planes, Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force
Bell X-1E Research, X-Planes, Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
Bell X-5 Research, X-Planes, Retired 1951 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force First aircraft to fly with variable geometry wings.[5]
Bell XV-15

V/STOL, Tilt Rotor Research, Retired (1) Ames Research Center Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Bellanca Skyrocket II

Fixed Wing Civil Aircraft Test Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Boeing 737, NASA 515

Fixed Wing Research, Terminal Area Productivity (TAP) Retired (1) 1974-2003 Langley Research Center Museum of Flight 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.
Boeing 747-100SR

Fixed Wing Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Retired (2) 1977–2012 Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center 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. N911NA is currently on display at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42.
Boeing 747, (SOFIA)

Fixed Wing Airborne observatory, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Retired (1) 1997–2022 Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center Retired 2022[6]
Boeing 757

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Advanced technology Retired (1) Ex–Eastern 757
Boeing B-52B Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Pima Air & Space Museum (003), Air Force Flight Test Center Museum (008) X-15 & X-43A launch from Boeing B-52 mothership
Boeing CH-47B Chinook

Rotorcraft Research, Variable Stability Research Rotorcraft project Retired (2) Ames Research Center, Langley Research Center 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.[7]
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

Fixed Wing Trainer, Reduced gravity aircraft Retired (2) 1973 - 2004 Ellington Field, Houston, Texas Ellington Field, Houston, Texas USAF KC–135As (designated N930NA and N931NA) Potential astronauts were exposed to simulated near–weightlessness. These aircraft are also known as Vomit Comets.
Boeing NB-52B, NASA NB-52B

Fixed Wing Research, Test Platform Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Edwards Air Force Base 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.[8] 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.[9]
Boeing X-37 Research, X-Planes, Active 2006 (drop test), 2010 (orbital flight) Armstrong Flight Research Center Reusable orbital spaceplane.[10]
Boeing X-40 Research, X-Planes, Retired 1998 Armstrong Flight Research Center 80% scale Space Maneuver Vehicle testbed.X-37 prototype.[11]
Boeing X-48

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, X-Planes, Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project[12] Retired (1) Armstrong Flight Research Center 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.[13]
Boeing X-45A Fixed Wing, UAV Research, X-Planes, Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center National Air and Space Museum (#1 Blue), National Museum of the United States Air Force (#2 Red)
Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing Research, X-Planes, Retired 2002 Armstrong Flight Research Center Active Aeroelastic Wing testbed.[14]
Boeing Vertol VZ-2 (Model 76)

V/STOL, Tilt Rotor Research, Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Paul E. Garber Facility.[15] Built in the United States in 1957 to investigate the tiltwing approach to vertical take-off and landing.
Cessna 206H

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (1) Langley Research Center Langley Research Center
Cessna 337 Skymaster Fixed Wing Civil Aircraft Test, Small Aircraft Transportation System Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Cessna 318 T-37 Tweet

Fixed Wing Civil Aircraft Test, Small Aircraft Transportation System Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Cirrus SR22

Fixed Wing Civil Aircraft Test, Small Aircraft Transportation System Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Convair 880

Fixed Wing Research, Controlled Impact Demonstration Program Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Langley Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
Convair 990 (Galileo)

Fixed Wing Airborne observatory, Galileo Observatory Destroyed (1), Retired (1) & Crashed (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Mojave Air and Space Port 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.
Convair F-106 Delta Dart (QF–106A)

Fixed Wing Retired 1986 - 1998 Langley Research Center
Convair C-131 Samaritan (Convair CV-240)

Fixed Wing Training, Reduced gravity aircraft, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS) Retired (2) Langley Research Center, Ellington Field, Houston, TX Project Mercury astronauts flew aboard a C-131 Samaritan flying as the "vomit comet
Dassault HU-25C Falcon

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (1) Langley Research Center Langley Research Center
de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo (Bisontennial) named in 1976

Fixed Wing Research, STOL Retired (1) 1970s late - early 1980s Ames Research Center 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).[16][17][18][19] 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.[18][20]
de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo (QSRA)

Fixed Wing Research, STOL, Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft program.[16][17][21]: 153 [22][23][24] Retired (1) 1970s late - early 1980s Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center The experimental wing was designed, fabricated and installed by Boeing was a swept, supercritical design incorporating a boundary layer control system.[22][23]: 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.[23]: 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.[17][21]: 154 
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (N607NA)

Fixed Wing Research, aircraft icing Retired (1) Glenn Research Center[25] Middle Tennessee State University at Murfreesboro Municipal Airport[26]
Doak VZ-4

VTOL Research Retired (1) Langley Research Center U.S. Army Transportation Museum
Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Fixed Wing Test Retired Ames Research Center
Douglas C-118 Liftmaster

Fixed Wing Wallops Flight Facility
Douglas C-133 Cargomaster

Fixed Wing Heavy Transport Aircraft Retired 1966–1969
Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of Naval Aviation (#1), Carolinas Aviation Museum (#3)
Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Planes of Fame Museum (#1), National Air and Space Museum (#2), Antelope Valley College (#3)
Douglas F5D Skylancer

Fixed Wing Trainer, Chase Plane Retired (2) 1961 - 1970 Armstrong Flight Research Center Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum (802), Ontario Municipal Airport (708) 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.[27]
Douglas X-3 Stiletto

Fixed Wing Research, X-Planes Retired (1) 1952–1956 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force 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.[28]
Dyke Delta

Fixed Wing
Eiri-Avion PIK-20

Fixed Wing, Sailplane Research, Lift & Aerodynamics Retired (1) 1981–1996 Armstrong Flight Research Center
General Atomics ALTUS

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Retired? (2) Armstrong Flight Research Center
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (Predator-B IKHANA)

Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform Active (1) Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

Fixed Wing Research, Retired (2) 1988 - 1999 Armstrong Flight Research Center Prototypes of the F-16XL, designed as a competitor to the F-15E Strike Eagle in the USAF's Enhanced Tactical Fighter program
General Dynamics F-16 VISTA

Fixed Wing Research, Variability in flight simulator aircraft Retired (1) Langley Research Center Now in use by the USAF Test PIlot School under the designation X-62.[29]
General Dynamics F-16XL

Fixed Wing Research, Retired (2) Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center (1)
Grumman Gulfstream I

Fixed Wing Retired (7) Johnson Space Center
Grumman X-29

Fixed Wing Research, X-Planes, Forward swept wing Retired (2) 1984–1991 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force
Grumman Gulfstream II

Fixed Wing Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) Active (4) NA El Paso Forward Operating Location, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas[30] (NASA C-11A)
Gulfstream G-III

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Research Platform, Airborne Science Program, Unmanned Air Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) Active (1) 2003 - Today Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center (NASA C–20A) 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.[31]
Gulfstream G-III, NASA one

Fixed Wing Business jet of the NASA Administrator Active (1) 2003 - 2008 NA 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.[32] NASA now shares a plane with FAA.
Gulfstream X-54 Research, X-Planes, Proposed Armstrong Flight Research Center
Hawker Siddeley P.1127

V/STOL Retired Langley Research Center
Kreider-Reisner XC-31

Fixed Wing Research, DeIcing Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Learjet 23

Fixed Wing Business jet ?
Learjet 24

Fixed Wing Business jet Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Lear Jet Airborne Observatory[33][34]
Learjet 25

Fixed Wing Business jet Active Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility
Learjet 28

Fixed Wing Business jet
Ling-Temco-Vought LTV XC-142

V/STOL, Tilt Wing Research, Transport aircraft Retired (1) 1966–1970 Langley Research Center
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy

Fixed Wing Heavy transport aircraft Active (2) Flown by USAF crews.
Lockheed C-121 Starliner

Fixed Wing Retired
Lockheed C-141A Starlifter

Fixed Wing Airborne observatory, Kuiper Airborne Observatory Retired (1) 1974 - 1995 Ames Research Center
Lockheed F-104A Starfighter Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center National Air and Space Museum (818) (N818NA), Air Force Flight Test Center Museum (N820NA) (0790)
Lockheed F-104B Starfighter Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center McClellan AFB (N819NA)
Lockheed F-104G Starfighter Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Estrella Warbird Museum (N824NA), Armstrong Flight Research Center (N826NA)
Lockheed F-104N Starfighter Fixed Wing Chase Retired (6) & Crashed (1) 1963 - 1995 Armstrong Flight Research Center Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (N811NA) (4045), Lockheed Martin, Palmdale, CA (N812NA) One of these aircraft, piloted by Joe Walker, collided with the XB-70 Valkyrie experimental bomber on June 8, 1966, killing Walker.
Lockheed JetStar

Fixed Wing Research Platform Retired (1) 1964-1989[35] Armstrong Flight Research Center
Lockheed NC-130B Hercules

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS) Active (1) Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility
Lockheed P-3 Orion

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (1) Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility
Lockheed S-3 Viking

Fixed Wing Research Platform Retired Glenn Research Center
Lockheed SR-71

Fixed Wing Trainer Retired (1) 1991 - 1999 Armstrong Flight Research Center Pima Air Museum 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.[36] 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.[37]
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird Fixed Wing Trainer Retired (1) 1991 - 1999 Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center 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.[36] 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.[37]
Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird Fixed Wing Trainer Retired (1) 1991 - 1999 Armstrong Flight Research Center Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum 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.[36] 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.[37]
Lockheed U-2 "Dragon Lady"

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS), High Altitude Active (2) Armstrong Flight Research Center Modified to the ER-2 (Earth Resources-2) standard
Lockheed YF-12

Fixed Wing Research, Retired (1) Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center, Glenn Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force
Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star

Fixed Wing Research Retired (1) Armstrong Flight Research Center
X-33 Venture Star Research, X-Planes, Retired (1) Prototype never completed Lockheed Martin Half-scale reusable launch vehicle prototype.[38]
Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA Research, X-Planes, Retired Cancelled Armstrong Flight Research Center F-22-based Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft thrust vectoring testbed.[39]
Lockheed Martin X-56 (MUTT) Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, X-Planes, Multi-Utility Technology Testbed Retired (1) 2012 Armstrong Flight Research Center Active flutter suppression and gust load alleviation technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft.[40]
Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST Research, X-Planes In Development (1) 2022 Armstrong Flight Research Center Low boom quiet super sonic demonstrator.[41]
Martin WB-57 Canberra

Fixed Wing Research Platform - Airborne Science Program, Landsat Earth Resources Survey program (ERS) High Altitude Active (3) Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 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)
Martin-Marietta X-24A Research, X-Planes, Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force Low-speed lifting body handling testbed.Lifting body aerodynamic shape trials.[42]
Martin-Marietta X-24B Research, X-Planes, Retired 1973 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force Low-speed lifting body handling testbed.Lifting body aerodynamic shape trials.[42]
McDonnell 188 (Breguet 941)

STOL Retired (1) 1964 - 1965 Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center McDonnell conducted demonstrations with the prototype of French Breguet plane from June 9, 1964, to April 16, 1965. The aircraft was evaluated by both NASA and the US military
McDonnell Douglas DC-8

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Retired [43] 1987-2024 Armstrong Flight Research Center
McDonnell Douglas C-9 Skytrain II

Fixed Wing Training, Reduced gravity aircraft Active (1) 2005 - TBD Johnson Space Center Ex-USN C-9B
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Fixed Wing Chase Plane Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center X-15 program, Lifting body flights (also collected biomedical data and used to see if sonic booms could be used as a weapon)
McDonnell Douglas F-15A RPRV/SRV Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD

Fixed Wing Research Platform, advanced propulsion concepts Retired (1) 1993 – 1999 and IFCS programs 2002 – TBD Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center F-15S/MTD 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.
McDonnell Douglas F-15B Active (1) [44] Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
McDonnell Douglas F-15D Active (2) [45] Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Active (3) [46] Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (842NA)

Fixed Wing Research Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Clear Channel Stadium
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 HARV

Fixed Wing Research, High Alpha Research Vehicle Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Virginia Air and Space Center (840NA)
McDonnell Douglas X-36 Research, X-Planes, Retired 1997 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force 28% scale tailless fighter testbed.[47]
McCulloch J-2

Rotorcraft Civil Test Retired? (1) 1973 Langley Research Center
Micro Craft X-43 Hyper-X Research, X-Planes, Retired 2001 Armstrong Flight Research Center Scramjet hypersonic testbed (Mach 9.68) (110,000 ft).[48]
NASA X-57 Research, X-Planes, In Development (1) 2021 Armstrong Flight Research Center Fully electric powered aircraft demonstrator.[49]
MIT Daedalus

Fixed Wing Research, Human Powered Retired (1) 1988 Armstrong Flight Research Center Museum of Science (Boston)
NASA AD-1

NASA AD-1

Fixed Wing Research, Oblique Wing Retired (1) 1979 - 1982 Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Hiller Aviation Museum Successfully demonstrated an aircraft wing that could be pivoted obliquely from zero to 60 degrees during flight.[50]
NASA Hyper III

Fixed Wing, UAV Retired (1) Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA Mini-Sniffer

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, atmosphere, high altitude Retired (3) 1975 - 1982 Langley Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA M2-F1

Fixed Wing Model Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center 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.[51]
NASA Paresev

Fixed Wing, Paraglider Research, Space Capsule Safety (1) Retired (4) 1961 - 1965 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum 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.[52][53] Specifically, the Paresev was a test vehicle used to learn how to control this paraglider for a safe landing at a normal airfield.
NASA X-43

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, X-Planes Retired (3) Langley Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
North American AJ Savage

Fixed Wing Trainer, Reduced gravity aircraft Retired (3) 1960 - TBD
North American A3J-1 Vigilante Fixed Wing Research - Supersonic transport program Retired (3) Armstrong Flight Research Center A3J-1 147858 to NASA as 858. Brought from NAS Patuxent River and spent one year at in support of supersonic transport program.
North American F-82 Twin Mustang

Fixed Wing Research, Handling & Performance Retired (1) Langley Research Center
North American F-86 Sabre

Fixed Wing Chase Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center
North American F-100 Super Sabre

Fixed Wing Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center
North American OV-10 Bronco

Fixed Wing Research, Noise & Wave Turbulence Retired Langley Research Center
North American X-15 (Rocket plane)

Fixed Wing Research, X-Planes, Hypersonic Flight Retired (1) 1959 - 1968 Armstrong Flight Research Center Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Conceived by NACA, three were built and explored the regime of hypersonic flight, often regarded as a direct predecessor to the Space Shuttle
North American X-15A-2 Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force
North American XB-70A Valkyrie

Fixed Wing Research, Retired (1), Crashed (1) 1965 - 1969 Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center National Museum of the United States Air Force 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.[54]
North American YF-93

Fixed Wing Research, Retired (2) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
North American F-107 Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Pima Air and Space Museum (#1) (55–5118)
Northrop HL-10

Fixed Wing Research, Lifting body Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
Northrop M2-F2

Fixed Wing Research, Lifting body Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center
Northrop M2-F3

Fixed Wing Research, Lifting body Retired (1) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Northrop T-38 Talon

Fixed Wing Trainer Active, Retired 1960s - Today El Paso Forward Operating Location, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas Used as a jet trainer for its astronauts since the 1960s.
Northrop X-4 Bantam Research, X-Planes, Retired 1948 Armstrong Flight Research Center Air Force Flight Test Center Museum#Air Force Flight Test Museum Evaluated handling characteristics of tailless aircraft in the transonic speed region.[55]
Northrop-Grumman F-5E modified

Fixed Wing Research, Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) Retired (1) 2003–2007 Armstrong Flight Research Center, Langley Research Center Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum 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.[56]
Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (2) Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center
Orbital Sciences X-34 Fixed Wing Research, X-Planes, Retired Never flew National Museum of the United States Air Force Reusable unmanned space plane testbed.[57]
OMAC Laser 300

Fixed Wing Civil Test Retired (3) Langley Research Center
Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche Retired Armstrong Flight Research Center Kings River Community College (808NA)
Pitcairn PAA-1

V/STOL Research, Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT

Fixed Wing, UAV Research, Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology Retired (2) Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Rockwell-MBB X-31

Fixed Wing Research, X-Planes, Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability (EFM) Retired (1), Crashed (2) Armstrong Flight Research Center, European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Company Oberschleißheim Museum (part of the Deutsches Museum)
Rutan VariEze

Fixed Wing Research, Civil Air Active Langley Research Center
Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane

VTOL Experimental VTOL aircraft Retired (1) Moffett Federal Airfield United States Army Aviation Museum
Ryan XV-5 Vertifan

V/STOL Research, Rescue Research Retired (1) Ames Research Center United States Army Aviation Museum
Scaled Composites X-38 Research, X-Planes, Retired (2) 1999 Armstrong Flight Research Center Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (V-131), Strategic Air and Space Museum(V-132) Lifting body Crew Return Vehicle demonstrator.[58]
Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft (SIERRA)

Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Crashed (1) Ames Research Center Lost at Sea
Schweizer X-26 Frigate Research, X-Planes, Retired 1967 Armstrong Flight Research Center National Soaring Museum (1-36) Training glider for yaw-roll couplingQuiet observation aircraft testbed.[59]
Sikorsky CH-54B Tarhe

Rotorcraft Utility Retired (1) 18 Mar 1972 - 15 Jan 1974 Langley Research Center Firefighting helicopter NASA s/n was NASA 539. Now owned by US Leaseco Inc Aurora,OR,US https://www.helis.com/database/cn/5060/
Sikorsky H-19

Rotorcraft Utility Retired (1) Langley Research Center
Sikorsky S-72, RSRA

V/STOL Research, Retired (2) 1979-? Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center RSRA, Rotor Systems Research Aircraft
Vought F-8 Crusader (Fly by Wire)

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Digital Fly–By–Wire Control System Retired (1) 1970s Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center Technology has become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
Vought F-8 Crusader (Supercritical wing)

Fixed Wing Research Platform, Supercritical wing Retired (1) 1970s Armstrong Flight Research Center Armstrong Flight Research Center Technology has become standard on modern high performance military aircraft.
Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III

Fixed Wing Research, Atmospheric Platform Retired (3) 1958-?
eXperimental Sensor-Controller Aerial Vehicle (XSCAV) Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, Airborne Science Program Active (1) Ames Research Center Ames Research Center

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