Aircraft Facility Information

UNOLS Oceanographic Aircraft Facility Information

The Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) is a designated UNOLS Oceanographic Aircraft Facility. CIRPAS is a research center at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California that operates manned, instrumented research aircrafts in support of the science community. 

The Twin Otter is an instrumented twin-engine turboprop aircraft.

• Click here to read more about it's capabilities and to request use of the Twin Otter. 

The Pelican is a highly-modified Cessna 337, O2, Skymaster originally developed by the Office of Naval Research for low-altitude, long-endurance atmospheric and oceanographic sampling.

• Click here to read more about it's capabilities and to request use of the Pelican. 

Other Federal Research Aircraft Facilities and Resources

• DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ARM Aerial Facility

• FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

  • Research and Development Flight Program Brochure

• NASA Wallops Flight Facility

• NASA Earth Science Project Office

• NOAA Aircraft Operations Center

• NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Division Aerosol's Group

• NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)

  • Aircraft, Ship, and Charter Forms

• NSF Earth Observing Laboratory

  • Requesting Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities

• NSF HIAPER Project

• US Naval Research Laboratory