This study employs the Fourier sine spectrum and Gabor sine spectrogram to monitor the vibration modes of three unmanned aircrafts whose data are collected by a portable acoustic data acquisition system. To capture both dominant and miuor modes, procedures to generate the spectrum and spectrogram are carefully constructed to avoid errors as much as possible. The uousiuusoidai trend is first removed via the iterative Gaussian smoothing method. Zero points around the two ends of the high-frequency part are identified by searching and interpolation procedures. After dropping segments beyond the two zero euds, the Fourier sine spectrum is obtahied. The timefrequency transform imposes a finite bandwidth Gaus.sian window upon the spectrum centered at a giveu frequency. Finally, the inverse fast Fourier tran.sform of the spectral band gives the spectrogram coefficient. The resulting spectrum aud spectrogram capture a great deal of information couceruing the dominant modes aud corresponding harmonics that clearly reveal the operating conditions. According to the nonlinear subharmonic theory of von Círoll and Ewins ("A Mechanism of Low Subharmonic Response in Rotor/Stator Contact-Measuremeuts and Simulations," analyses of acoustic signatures of three remote control aerial vehicles indicate they do not have significant nonalignment between components. The test ofa remote control helicopter even shows the capability of resolving the change ofa fiowfield. All of the tests show that the proposed system is a potential tool to monitor both the operational and healthy conditions of a system.