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Fort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) is a United States Army post located primarily in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It is named in honor of Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel, an Army aviator and Medal of Honor recipient. [2] [3] It was previously named for a Civil War officer, Confederate Colonel Edmund Rucker. [4]
The United States Army Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located on Fort Novosel near Daleville, Alabama. It has the largest collection of helicopters held by a museum in the world. It has the largest collection of helicopters held by a museum in the world.
The U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence is the United States Army Aviation Branch's headquarters, and its training and development center, located at Fort Novosel, Alabama. The Aviation Center of Excellence coordinates and deploys aviation operations and trains aviation officers in a variety of topics, including classroom navigation ...
FORT NOVOSEL, Ala. (WDHN) — The United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence named Maj. General Clair A. Gill was the next senior leader at the change of command ceremony on Friday morning ...
The 1st Aviation Brigade is an aviation brigade of the United States Army, stationed at Fort Novosel in Alabama.It commands three distinctly different battalions—the 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment; the 1st Battalion, 145th Aviation Regiment; and the 2nd Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment, the former Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training Battalion at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
Novosel retired as the senior warrant officer with the Warrant Officer Candidate Program in 1984. He had been a military aviator for 42 years and was the last World War II military aviator in the U.S. to remain on active flying duty. He accumulated 12,400 military flying hours, including 2,038 in combat.
Fort Novosel is the Home of Army Aviation, where the US Army's aviators as well as many international and civilian personnel begin their helicopter flight training. Cairns is the busiest airfield in the Army, training large numbers of Army aviators both day and night with an average annual traffic count of approximately 240,000 movements.
The United States Army's Warrant Officer Career College (USAWOCC), located at Fort Novosel, Alabama, functions as Training and Doctrine Command's executive agent for all warrant officer training and education in the U.S. Army.