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It has the largest collection of helicopters held by a museum in the world. [1] [2] The museum features some 50 aircraft on public display with aviation artifacts ranging from a replica of the Wright brothers' Model B military biplane to an RAH-66 Comanche. The museum has over 160 aircraft in its collection and holds 3,000 historical items. [3]
The name was changed to "Fort Rucker" in October 1955. The Hanchey Army Airfield became the home of the Department of Rotary Wing Training of the Army Aviation School on 5 October 1959, marking the first time the department was centralized. Fort Rucker suffered damage from three significant tornadoes within two years
The Army Aviation School moved to Alabama in August,1954 and the first class began at Rucker that October. On February 1,1955, the Army Aviation Center was officially established at Rucker. In the same year during the month of October, the post was given permanent status and changed their name from Camp Rucker to Fort Rucker.
In late 1971, the Army Air Mobility Research and Development Laboratory, ... [13] and 73-21942 is on display at the Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Alabama.
The Army's Warrant Officer Pilot Program was begun in 1949 and the first pilots graduated in 1951. The Air Training Department was renamed the Army Aviation School in 1953 and was moved to Camp Rucker in 1954 (later renamed Fort Rucker in 1956). In 1956 the Gary and Wolters Air Force Bases in Texas were transferred from the Air Force to the Army.
BV-347 at the US Army Aviation Museum in Fort Rucker (now Fort Novosel) in Alabama, 2013. The BV-347 made its first flight in Phase I configuration on May 27, 1970. [1] During Phase I test flights, the BV-347 demonstrated a transmission-limited maximum true airspeed of 177 knots (204 mph; 328 km/h), excellent stability and flight characteristics, and low vibration and sound levels.
The X-26B aircraft known as QT-2 N2471W and QT-2PC #1 is located (as of 2019) in the collection of the US Army Aviation Museum at Ft. Rucker AL. The original N number N2471W was reassigned in 2019 to another Schweizer SGS 2-32 glider, (serial #7, formerly N2758Z) owned by Mile High Gliding of Boulder Colorado.
In 1975, Lockheed donated the CL-475 to the National Air and Space Museum. The helicopter was loaned to the United States Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker, Alabama, [ 1 ] but was in the museum's storage as of 2009.