United States Army Aviation Museum, Military aviation museum at Fort Novosel near Daleville, Alabama, United States
The United States Army Aviation Museum houses approximately 50 aircraft of different types, including helicopters, fixed-wing planes, and experimental prototypes arranged across multiple exhibition halls. The collection documents the evolution of military aviation from its early beginnings to modern combat aircraft.
In 1977 the museum announced a fundraising campaign to replace the wooden buildings that housed it. Ground was broken in November 2019 on the William A. Howell Training Support Facility, which opened on 12 April 2024 and is not open to the public.
The museum's collection grew from the Army Aviation Branch's own holdings, and its aircraft carry the names soldiers gave them, such as the UH-1 Iroquois known as the Huey and the CH-54 Tarhe. A replica of the Wright brothers' Model B military biplane marks the starting point of the story the exhibits tell.
The museum sits on Fort Novosel, renamed from Fort Rucker in 2023, near Daleville in Dale County. About 50 of the more than 160 aircraft in the collection are on public display. A separate building, the William A. Howell Training Support Facility, broke ground in November 2019 and opened on 12 April 2024; it is not open to the public.
The collection holds over 160 aircraft but only about 50 are on public display, so most of the fleet is kept off the exhibition floor. Among the stored airframes are prototypes such as the Sikorsky S-72 Rotor Systems Research Aircraft, the McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane and the Ryan XV-5B Vertifan.
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