NASA HAS CONDUCTED AIRBORNE TROPOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY STUDIES FOR ABOUT THREE DECADES. THESE STUDIES HAVE GENERATED A GREAT WEALTH OF DATA HELD BY ASDC (ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE DATA CENTER) DATING BACK TO 1980S. THE DATA SETS HAVE BEEN INCREASINGLY USED IN MODEL ASSESSMENTS IN TERMS OF EVALUATION OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES AS WELL AS VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS. NASA'S GOAL IS TO MAKE AIRCRAFT DATA READILY AVAILABLE FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ON CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY ISSUES. THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES IN USING THE AIRCRAFT DATA. FOR EXAMPLE, THE AIRCRAFT DATA ARE NOT CENTRALLY ARCHIVED AND THE CURRENT NASA AIRBORNE DATA FORMAT CANNOT BE READILY INGESTED INTO THE ASDC DATA SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO I) CONVERT THE CURRENT ICARTI 2010 AND 2004 DATA TO THE EXTENDED ICARTT FORMAT, WHICH CAN BE READILY INGESTED INTO THE ASDC DATA SYSTEM AND 2) DEVELOP SOFTWARE TO ASSIST THE AIRCRAFT DATA INGESTION PROCESS. SPECIFICALLY, THIS PROJECT WILL PROCESS INTEX-A, NEAQS ITCT-2004 INTEX-B, TEXAQS-11, ARCTAS, ARCPAC, CALNEX AND DSICOVER-AQ AIRBORNE DATA SETS. THE CHALLENGE OF THE RESEARCH WORK IS TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENT DATA MINING MECHANISM FOR QUICK IDENTIFICATION OF VARIABLES AND METADATA, AND CONVERT RAW ICARTT DATA FILES INTO AN EXTENDED ICARTT FORMAT THAT CAN BE USED TO POPULATE ASDC DATABASE ENGINE IN SPITE OF MANY VARIATIONS, INCONSISTENCIES AND OMISSIONS IN THE RAW DATA FILES. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT WILL BE NOT ONLY THE CONVERTED DATA PRODUCTS BUT ALSO SOFTWARE POTENTIALLY USEFUL FOR THE FUTURE DATA INGESTION SYSTEM. IN ADDITION, THIS RESEARCH EFFORT WILL ALSO PROVIDE GUIDANCE TO THE FUTURE UPGRADE OF THE NASA AIRCRAFT DATA FORMAT STANDARDS.