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Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2007 Power for Land, Sea, and Air May 14-17, 2007, Montreal, Canada GT2007-27176 PROBABILISTIC MISSION IDENTIFICATION OF AIRCRAFT ENGINE USAGE USING NONPARAMETRIC DENSITY ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES M.P. Enright S.J. Hudak Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, TX 78238 ABSTRACT updates to the mission usage based on FDR data, and Fatigue life prediction of aircraft gas turbine engine reassessment of structural integrity. rotating components requires estimates of the applied stress Mission variability studies based on actual usage from values throughout the life of the component. These values may FDRs have shown that the probability of component failure is vary considerably from flight-to-flight, and are highly highly dependent on mission type, and there is also significant dependent upon the mission type. However, engine flight data usage variability within a given mission type [1, 2]. This recorders currently do not have the capability to identify the situatio