Wyoming King Air as a National Facility

该合作协议继续将怀俄明州国王航空公司作为国家设施运营。King Air飞机设施是一个独特的设施，为NSF支持的科学界和地球科学界提供了一个观测科学和教育的平台。该飞机将保持在飞行准备状态，以支持NSF批准的需要双引擎涡轮螺旋桨飞机能力的大气研究项目。该协议为“空中国王”飞机和仪器的管理、人员配备、操作、维护、测试和一些改进提供基础资金。它包括实地项目规划和数据减少阶段的科学和技术支助。该协议还将包括在NSF低层大气研究设施部署池资金的补充奖励下部署该设施。该飞机自1987年12月以来一直作为NSF国家设施运营。该设施平均每年执行五到六个实地项目。自1977年以来，这架飞机已经飞行了3000多个研究飞行小时，其中大约1800个小时是由NSF赞助的科学家完成的。目前还没有合适的替代飞机可以为nsf赞助的研究执行相同类型的数据收集。

This cooperative agreement continues to operate the Wyoming King air as a national facility. The King Air aircraft facility is a unique facility that provides a platform for observational science and education for the NSF supported scientific community and the geosciences community in general. The aircraft would be maintained in a flight ready condition to support NSF approved atmospheric research projects that require the capability of the twin-engine turboprop. The agreement provides base funding for the management, staffing, operation, maintenance, testing and some enhancements of the King Air aircraft and instrumentation. It covers both the scientific and technical support for planning and data reduction phases of field projects. The agreement will also include the deployment of the facility under supplemental awards from the NSF's lower atmospheric research facilities deployment pool funding. The aircraft has been operated as an NSF national facility since December 1987. The facility has flown on average about five to six field programs per year. During its lifetime (since 1977) the aircraft has flown over 3000 research flight hours, of which about 1800 have been devoted to NSF sponsored scientists. There is no current suitable replacement aircraft that could perform the same type of data collection for NSF-sponsored research.