Standard configuration allows for the mission equipment, two pilots, and one photographer.
The Turbo Commander has always been a part of the AOC inventory and it should continue to provide service into the twenty-first century. NOAA's AC-690 Turbo Commander is utilized by the NGS Remote Sensing Division and the NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Division. The NGS conducts aeronautical surveys requiring collection of stereophotographic and remotely sensed data. These surveys facilitate coastal mapping, airport obstruction charting, photobathymetry, photogeodesy, boundary determination, and coastal wetlands mapping. Depending on the scale of imagery required, missions are flown at altitudes of 1000 to 24,000 feet above ground level using kinematic GPS survey techniques.