{"id":447618,"date":"2026-02-27T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:58:08","slug":"uk-atmospheric-research-aircraft-facing-grounding-after-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447618\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Atmospheric Research Aircraft Facing Grounding After Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    UK Atmospheric Research Aircraft Facing Grounding After Review | Aviation Week Network<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/tony-osborne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Osborne<\/a><br \/>\n                    February 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/faam.jpg\" alt=\"Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements\" class=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements<\/p>\n<p>  LONDON\u2013A BAE Systems 146 airliner used for atmospheric research by UK scientists is to be grounded permanently following a review of the program. Funding for the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)\u2014a specially modified BAE Systems 146-300 operated by the UK\u2019s National Center for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/osborneanthony.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img author__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/tony-osborne\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Osborne<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">UK Atmospheric Research Aircraft  Facing Grounding After Review is published in Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the aerospace and defense community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK Atmospheric Research Aircraft Facing Grounding After Review | Aviation Week Network https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Tony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-447618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}