United States Army Aviation Museum

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The United States Army Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located on Fort Rucker near Ozark, Alabama. 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 AH-64 Apache from Operation Desert Storm. The museum has over 160 aircraft in its collection and holds 3,000 historical items.^[3]

Contents 1 Collection 1.1 On display 1.2 Other notable aircraft 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Collection

On display

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Other notable aircraft

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• Sikorsky S-72 Rotor Systems Research Aircraft (RSRA)
• McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane
• Ryan XV-5B Vertifan
• Hawker XV-6A Kestrel
• Ryan VZ-3RY Vertiplane
• YH-41A Seneca
• Curtiss-Wright VZ-7

Sources: US Army Aviation Museum collection pages^[4][5][6]

See also

• List of museums in Alabama
• Southern Museum of Flight

References

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• Phillips, Cody R. A Guide to U.S. Army Museums, DIANE Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-7881-4671-8.
• Purner, John. 101 Best Aviation Attractions. McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN 0-07-142519-5.

External links

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• United States Army Aviation Museum's site
• US Army Aviation Museum page on IPMSSantaRosa.orgTemplate:Aerospace-museum-stub