The Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum) is located in the German town of Bückeburg, 30 miles (50 km) to the west of

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. The museum is the sole museum in Germany specialising in rotary-wing flight and one of few worldwide. The museum is dedicated to the history and technology of the

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which Lift (force), lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning Helicopter rotor, rotors. This allows the helicopter to VTOL, take off and land vertically, to hover (helicopter), hover, and ...

History

Sergeant Major Werner Noltemeyer gathered parts, models, books and photographs of rotary-wing aircraft while he was training to become a helicopter pilot in the German Army Aviation Corps. In 1959 the German School of Army Aviation was established in Bückeburg. In the late 1960s, the city council of Bückeburg offered Noltemeyer an old timbered-framed building for use as a museum which opened in 1971. Due to a shortage of space an additional exhibition hall was added in 1980. The museum was further expanded with a glass addition in 2011. DaVinci Helix Hubschraubermuseum Bueckeburg

DaVinci Helix Hubschraubermuseum Bueckeburg

Hubschraubersimulator im Hubschraubermuseum Bueckeburg

Hubschrauberzentrum e. V.

The ''Hubschrauberzentrum e. V.'' (Helicopter Centre Association) - founded in 1970 - is an organisation of volunteers that operates and maintains the museum. The association maintains an extensive archive and a library for scientific study of the history of rotorcraft.

Exhibits

Displayed in the museum are 53 Single and Multi-rotor Helicopters, Gyrocopters,

Gyrodynes A gyrodyne is a type of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system that needs to be driven by its engine only for takeoff and landing, and includes one or more conventional propeller or jet engines to provide thrust during cruising fligh ...

and Drones as well as numerous Helicopter models, historical photos, working models of rotors, technical demonstration and teaching material, parts, tools or equipment for helicopters (status April 2023). A Helicopter Simulator is available for museum visitors.

Single-rotor helicopters

Exhibits include the following helicopter types: * Aérospatiale Alouette III (SA 316B) * Aérospatiale SA 330J Puma * Bell 47 G2 Sioux * Bell UH-1D „Iroquois“, last Helicopter from this type of the ''German Army Aviation Corps'' with special paint „Goodbye Huey“ * Bölkow Bo 46 *

Bölkow Bo 102 The Bölkow Bo 102 Helitrainer was an unusual ground-based helicopter training aid that was developed and built by Bölkow of West Germany in the late-1950s. Designed to be mounted on a swivelling captive rig the Bo 102 allowed trainee pilots to ...

Bölkow Bo 103 The Bölkow Bo 103 was an ultralight experimental helicopter flown in West Germany in 1961. It was designed for reconnaissance and command-control purposes and constructed by Bölkow Entwicklungen KG as part of a research order by the German Fed ...

* Bölkow Bo 103 V3 (Prototype) *Bölkow P166/3 Flying Jeep * Bristol 171 Sycamore Mk. 52 * Eurocopter Dauphin SA 365 C3 * Eurocopter EC-665 Tiger (prototype No 3) *Georges G-1 Papillon (home-made experimental helicopter) *Georges G-2 (home-made experimental helicopter) *Havertz HZ-5 (home-made helicopter) *Heimbächer No 4 * Hiller H-23C Raven * Hughes TH-55 Osage * MBB Bo 105 P-1A1 anti-tank helicopter * MBB Bo 105 CB-4 „The Flying Bulls“ * MBB/Eurocopter Bo 108 *

MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 The MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 is a twin-engined light Utility helicopter, utility–transport helicopter. It was jointly developed and manufactured by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) of Germany and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki of Japan. MBB ...

*Merckle SM 67 *

Mil Mi-1 The Mil Mi-1 (USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 32", NATO reporting name "Hare") was a Soviet three- or four-seat light utility helicopter. It was the first Soviet helicopter to enter serial production. It is powered by one Ivchenko AI-26V radial ...

Mil Mi-2 The Mil Mi-2 (NATO reporting name: Hoplite) is a small, three Helicopter rotor, rotor blade Soviet-designed multi-purpose helicopter developed by the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, designed in the early 1960s and produced exclusively by PZL-Świdn ...

*Nagler-Rolz NR 54 (replica) *

Saunders-Roe Skeeter The Saunders-Roe Skeeter is a two-seat training and scout helicopter that was developed and produced by British manufacturer Saunders-Roe ("Saro") of Cowes and Southampton, in the United Kingdom. Work on what would become the Skeeter had bee ...

*Siemetzki ASRO * Sikorsky S-58 / H-34) * Sud Aviation Alouette II (SE 3130) * Sud-Ouest SO 1221 Djinn

Multi-rotor helicopters

* Aerotechnik WGM 21 * Cornu No II (first successful helicopter flight on 13 November 1907 - replica) *

Focke-Wulf Fw 61 The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company— Focke-Achgelis—in 1937. Design and development Professor Henri ...

(replica) *Goslich Pedalcopter *

Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) is a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a flying platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for direc ...

("Flying Platform" - replica) * Ingenuity (replica of the small helicopter being test flown on Mars, April 2021 - present) *

Kaman HH-43 Huskie The Kaman HH-43 Huskie is a helicopter developed and produced by the American rotorcraft manufacturer Kaman Aircraft. It is perhaps most distinctive for its use of twin intermeshing rotors, having been largely designed by the German aeronautical ...

Kamov Ka-26 The Kamov Ka-26 (NATO reporting name Hoodlum) is a Soviet light utility helicopter with Coaxial rotors, co-axial rotors. Development The Ka-26 entered production in 1969 and 816 were built. A variant with a single turboshaft engine is the Kamo ...

* Vertol V-43 / H-21 C *Wagner Rotocar (combination between car and helicopter)

Gyrocopters

* Air & Space 18A Flymobil * Bensen Gyrocopter B-8-M *Derschmidt Gyrocopter * Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Wagtail *Krauss Autogiro TRS 1 * Rotortec Cloud Dancer I *

Rotortec Cloud Dancer II The Rotortec Cloud Dancer II is a German autogyro, designed by Jochen Steinbeck and produced by Rotortec of Görisried, Allgäu. The aircraft was first shown at AERO Friedrichshafen in 2009 and is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Ba ...

*Saalbach home-made Gyrocopter

Gyrodynes

*VFW-Fokker H2 * VFW-Fokker H3 Sprinter

Drones

* microdrones md4-1000 * UMS Group R-350 ''Schaumburg-Lippische Landes-Zeitung:
Neu in Bückeburg: Hubschrauberdrohne - und viele Fragen zu ihrem Einsatz
Retrieved: 10 January 2024 Police Drone

Helicopter simulator

* for virtual flights by visitors

References

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