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Cessna 402B

The University Research Foundation operates a twin-engine Cessna 402B aircraft for low altitude sensor platforms and scientific equipment. One area involves enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) sensor and synthetic vision system (SVS) evaluation. The aircraft has mulitiple nose coses for housing various windows for IR, millimeter wave, and UV forward-looking sensors, whose images are displayed on a head-up display (HUD) or head-down display, with simultaneous recording of three inputs (sensor/SVS, HUD, CCD normal vision camera). Data recording of aircraft attitude and position information is provided by the mission computer. The Cessna 402B also supports evaluation of other scientific equipment platforms such as advanced inertial management units (IMU). Air-ground video and data link communication capabilities are also supported on this aircraft.

 
   
Owner/Operator: University Research Foundation
Type: Conventional Aircraft
Duration: 6.7 hours
Useful Payload: 2300 Lbs.
Gross Take-off Weight: 6,300 lbs
Onboard Operators: Single Pilot
Max Altitude: 26,000 feet
Air Speed: 210 Knots
Range: 12000 nm
Power: Dual 110VAC Inverters, 30 amps each
   

 
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