Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (Mountain View, California)

	Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	Aerial view of the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel complex, 1974
Location	Mountain View, California
Coordinates	37°25′0.9″N 122°3′37.71″W
Built	1955
NRHP reference No.	85002799
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 3, 1985
Designated NHL	October 3, 1985

The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, located at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California, United States, is a research facility used extensively to design and test new generations of aircraft, both commercial and military, as well as NASA space vehicles, including the Space Shuttle. The facility was completed in 1955 and is one of five facilities created after the 1949 Unitary Plan Act supporting aeronautics research.

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