The United States Army Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located on Fort Rucker near Daleville, Alabama. It has the largest collection of helicopters held by a museum in the world.Phillips 1992, p. 37.Purner 2004, p. 204. 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.Army Aviation Museum Collection , ArmyAviationMuseum.org.
History The museum announced plans to raise money to build a new structure to replace the wooden buildings in which it was housed in 1977.
The museum broke ground on a new building called the William A. Howell Training Support Facility in November 2019, which will not be open to the public. The new building opened on 12 April 2024.
Collection
World War I aircraft
Fixed-wing aircraft
Helicopters
Other notable aircraft
Sources: US Army Aviation Museum collection pagesMuseum Collection, rotary wing , ArmyAviationMuseum.org.Museum Collection, fixed wing , ArmyAviationMuseum.org.Museum Collection, vertical flight , ArmyAviationMuseum.org.
See also List of aerospace museums List of museums in Alabama Southern Museum of Flight National Museum of the United States Air Force National Naval Aviation Museum
References
Phillips, Cody R. A Guide to U.S. Army Museums, DIANE Publishing, 1992. . Purner, John. 101 Best Aviation Attractions. McGraw-Hill, 2004. .
External links
US Army Aviation Museum page on IPMSSantaRosa.org