D26 – GIII

Gulfstream III in flight over NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

This Grumman Gulfstream III business jet has been modified and instrumented by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center to serve as a multi-role cooperative research platform testbed for a variety of flight research experiments. The twin-turbofan aircraft provides long-term capability for efficient testing of subsonic flight experiments for NASA.

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