El Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory van ser unes instal·lacions de la NASA per donar suport a la recerca en astronomia d'infraroig. La plataforma d'observació va ser un aparell Lockheed C-141A Starlifter molt modificat, N714NA, amb una autonomia de 6.000 milles nàutiques , capaç de fer operacions de recerca científica a 48.000 peus .
El KAO tenia la seva base a Ames Research Center, NAS Moffett Field, a Sunnyvale, Califòrnia. Va iniciar les operacions l'any 1974 i substrituïa un aparell anterior, el Galileo Observatory, un Convair 990 modificat que es va destruir per un xoc amb un Lockheed P-3C Orion de la U.S. Navy el 1973.
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