NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has received three F-15D Eagle aircraft from the U.S. Air Force for flight research and mission support duties. The demilitarized high-performance aircraft were transferred from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., to NASA Dryden on Sept. 21, 2010. One will be dedicated to research, a second will provide mission support, and the third will be a spare parts source.

One of the twin-engine, two-seat tactical fighters will replace Dryden's aging F-15B Research Testbed aircraft, tail number 836. A second F-15D will be used as a mission operations support aircraft, while a third will serve as a spare parts source. Built in the late 1970s by McDonnell Douglas Corp. -- now part of the Boeing Co. -- in St. Louis, Mo., the three aircraft carry Air Force serial numbers 78-0564, 78-0565, and 79-0007.

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