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Aviation Systems Flight Research Facility

The UTSI Flight Research Facility (FRF) is owned by the University of Tennessee and operated by the UTSI Aviation Systems Program. The facility is located on the Tullahoma Regional Airport (THA), 2 miles northwest of the city of Tullahoma, Tennessee. The airport has two main runways, both approximately 5,000 feet in length, and two turf runways and is at an elevation of 1,082 feet. Various non-precision instrument approaches (GPS, SDF, VOR, and NDB) are available. The local airspace around Tullahoma airport is sparsely populated and unrestricted, making it ideal for flight test operations.

The FRF facility consists of a 10,000 square foot (929.0 m2), two bay hangar and a 1,700 square foot (157.9 m2) prototype shop. The hangar has approximately 41,000 square feet (3,809.0 m2) of adjacent ramp space and immediate access to the runways and taxiways of the Tullahoma airport. The FRF hangar facility houses the UTSI aircraft, instrumentation shop, classroom, and offices. The prototype shop includes a small machine shop and composites fabrication capability to provide efficient aircraft modifications and prototyping.

Also located at the airport is an additional simulation laboratory. This simulator is used for simulating larger transport-type aircraft performing research on icing and integrated vehicle health management systems (IVHM). This simulator is equipped with a transport-type control column and throttles in order to provide high-fidelity simulation of larger transport handling qualities.