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Wyoming King Air Flew Back-to-Back Salt Lake Ozone Missions

The six-week campaign is examining how lake breezes, smoke and emissions create the Wasatch Front's harmful summer pollution.

Flight
  1. Salt Lake City, UTSalt Lake City, UTKSLCKSLCAug 18, 20262:38 PM4:21 PMEDT1h 43m

University of Wyoming King Air N2UW flew local Salt Lake City research sorties on August 18 and 19 as the SLC-SOS campaign continued across the Wasatch Front. NCAR's project page identifies the aircraft as the airborne component for July and August 2026, while contemporaneous reporting described repeated low-altitude sampling flights. Researchers are measuring how heat, lake breezes, smoke and local emissions combine to drive harmful summer ozone.

Selected flight record
Flight record
Route
KSLC → KSLC
Departure
Aug 18, 2026, 2:38 PM ET
Arrival
Aug 18, 2026, 4:21 PM ET
Airborne
1h 43m
Sources & methodology

Sources: NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory; KUER; University of Wyoming.

Aircraft & ownership
Aircraft
Tail
N2UW
FAA type
B350 · Beechcraft King Air 350 family
Group
Mountain West
Registry
United States
Attribution
Registered owner
University of Wyoming
current registry · not dated to this flight
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ADS-B data is a public aircraft-movement record. This page separates observed movement from cited context and avoids passenger claims unless a source document supports them.