Aircraft Operations Center
- Aircraft Operations Center
The Aircraft Operations Center is the main base for the approximately 15 aircraft of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government.
It is the home base of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters.
The base is located on MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The NOAA Aircraft Operations Center houses multiple light aircraft, and three Hurricane Hunters aircraft. This base plays a large role in every hurricane season, flying into and around hurricanes for research and forecasting.
AOC aircraft
* WP-3D Orion - heavily instrumented turboprops used for hurricane hunting
* Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) - twin turbofan jet aircraft for high-altitude hurricane research
* Cessna Citation II (CE-550)
* DeHavilland Twin Otter (DHC-6)
* Gulfstream Turbo Commander (AC-690)
* Rockwell Aero Commander (AC-500S)
* Lake Aircraft Renegade Seawolf 250 (LA-27)
External links
* [http://www.aoc.noaa.gov Aircraft Operations Center]
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