2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

Flight Requests
The 2008 calendar year was active
for the Airborne Science flight
request system. Improvements
have been made to the
Suborbital Science Flight Request
(SOFR) system to reflect requested changes
in notifications and access. An additional
system update will be implemented in June
of 2009. SOFRS can be accessed through
the website at the following URL: http://
airbornescience.nasa.gov.
There were 117 flight requests submitted
in 2008. Forty-four flight requests were
completed, forty-one were rolled over
to 2009, and the rest were withdrawn or
Aircraft Submitted Total Approved
Total
Completed
Total Science Flight
Hours Flown
DC-8 8 4 4 292.1
ER-2 25 11 11 148.9
P-3 15 6 3 201.4
WB-57 6 3 1 11.3
Twin Otter 28 14 9 327.4
B-200 14 11 11 415.7
G-3 6 2 1 155.9
Lear 25 2 NA* 1 4.1
Aerosonde 4 2 1 23.5
Ikhana 4 2 2 54.5
J-31 1 0 0 0
SIERRA 2 2 0 0
F-18 1 1 0 0
SAAB 340 1 0 0 0
TOTAL 117 58 44 1634.8
Table 2: Summary of FY08 Flight Hours by Aircraft
Key to Table 2:
Submitted: Flight Request entered into the system
Total Approved: All flight requests that have been approved.
Total Completed: Flight requests completed or partially completed.
*Some internally approved Langley B-200 and GRC Learjet 25 flight requests were separate from the ASP FR
system but the completed science hours are reflected in this summary.
Aircraft hours flown for maintenance, check flights and pilot proficiencies are not included in FY08 totals above.
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