List of aerospace flight test centres
Flight test centers around the world all have similar missions: to conduct flight research and testing of new aircraft concepts and prototypes. Notable centers are listed below :
Government establishments
- U.K. Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, based at Boscombe Down, England
- U.S. Navy Air Warfare Test Center, based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, United States
- Swedish Armed Forces Flight Test and Evaluation Center, based at Linköping, Sweden
- Italian Air Force Flight Test Center, based at Pratica di Mare
- Russian State Flight Research and Test Center, based at Zhukovsky, Russia
- I.N.T.A. Spanish Aerospace Research and Test Center, based at Torrejón de Ardoz, Community of Madrid, Spain
- CLAEX Spanish Air Force Experimentation Center, based at Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
- U.S. Air Force Test Center, based at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United States
- Flight Test Center of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, based at 217 Air Base in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
- NASA Flight Research Center, based at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United States
- NRC Flight Research Laboratory, based at Ottawa and Montreal, Canada
- Brazilian Air Force Flight Testing and Research Institute, São José dos Campos, Brazil
- Japan Air Self-Defense Force Flight Test Center, based at Gifu Air Field, Japan
- DLR German Aerospace Research and Test Center, based at Braunschweig, Germany
- WTD 61 German Armed Forces Flight Test Center, based at Manching, Germany
- Indian Air Force Test Pilot School, Bangalore, India
- U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, currently based at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, United States
- China Flight Test Establishment, based at Xi'an, China
- Swiss Air Force Flight Test Center, based at Emmen Air Base, Emmen, Switzerland
- Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, based at Cold Lake, Alberta, and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Israeli Air Force Flight Test Center (Manat), based at Tel Nof Airbase, Rehovot
- JAXA Flight Research Center, based at Chofu Aerodrome, Nagoya Airfield and Taiki Aerospace Research Field
Corporate establishments
- CASA Flight Test Center, based at the Getafe Air Base, Spain
- SAAB Flight Test Center, based at Linköping, Sweden
- BAE Systems Flight Test Center, based at Warton Aerodrome, England
- Airbus Defence and Space Flight Test Center, based at Manching, Germany
- Sikorsky Development Flight Center, based at West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- TCOM Corporation production and flight test site for development of lighter-than-air technologies and testing airships, located at the former Naval Air Station Weeksville in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States
- Bombardier Aerospace Flight Test Center, based at the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Embraer Flight Test Center, based at Embraer Unidade aerodrome, Gavião Peixoto, Brazil
- Bell Flight Research Center, based at Arlington, Texas, United States
- IAI Flight Test Center, based at Ben Gurion Airport, Israel