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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.
The Alabama State Trooper Aviation Unit was formed in 1975 using four Bell H-13 Sioux and one Cessna 182. The unit currently operates one Bell 206 L, one Bell 407 , seven OH-58 helicopters and three Cessna 182’s, a Piper Navajo and King Air 200 .
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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.
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.
U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, currently based at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, United States (founded 1957, as the U.S. Army Aviation Test Board based at Fort Rucker) [11] [12] China Flight Test Establishment, based at Xi'an , China (founded 1959) [ 13 ] [ 14 ]