Platform

Cessna 206
Cessna 206H Stationair

4: Campaigns
3: Data Products

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent to measure changes in the massive ice sheet and sea ice. Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger (Photography courtesy NASA Images)

Overview

The Cessna 206 is a general aviation airplane owned by NASA Langley Research Center. The aircraft is a high-wing, single-engine airplane equipped with tricycle landing gear, and it can accommodate a crew of three researchers. The Cessna 206 has a useful payload of 1175 lbs and a maximum air speed of 150 knots in a range of 700 nmi. It acts as a low-cost research platform and is equipped with NASA Langley’s General Aviation Baseline Research System, an instrument package intended for atmospheric research.

Online information

https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft/Cessna_206H_-_LaRC

Related Campaigns & Instruments

Review the instruments operated on this platform for each of these field campaigns

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CLASIC07

Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign 2007

2007

Southern Great Plains, Oklahoma, Kansas

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Start Date	End Date
2007-06-11	2007-07-06

· 7 Data Products

Generic-Chemistry Related Sensors (Gen-Chemistry)

IceBridge

Operation IceBridge

2009—2021

Greenland, Antarctica, Alaska, Arctic Sea

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Deployment Dates

Start Date	End Date
2009-10-16	2010-02-16
2009-03-31	2009-06-02
2009-08-19	2009-09-06
2010-03-22	2010-05-26
2010-08-21	2010-08-29
2010-10-20	2011-02-26
2011-03-16	2011-05-30
2011-08-16	2011-09-12
2011-10-07	2011-12-23
2012-03-14	2012-05-24
2012-08-14	2012-08-30
2012-10-12	2013-01-26
2013-03-20	2013-05-28
2013-06-17	2013-08-30
2013-10-31	2013-11-14
2013-11-19	2013-11-28
2014-03-12	2014-05-24
2014-08-19	2014-08-23
2014-10-16	2014-11-22
2015-03-19	2015-05-22
2015-08-20	2015-08-29
2015-09-22	2015-10-29
2015-09-23	2015-10-22
2016-04-19	2016-05-28
2016-07-13	2016-09-15
2016-10-14	2016-11-18
2017-03-09	2017-05-31
2017-07-17	2017-09-20
2017-10-29	2017-12-16
2018-03-22	2018-05-30
2018-08-17	2018-08-29
2018-10-10	2018-11-16
2019-04-03	2019-05-16
2019-09-04	2019-09-28
2019-10-23	2019-11-20
2020-05-21	2020-06-13
2021-05-02	2021-05-13