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Classic Rotors Museum

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Established
  
1992

Curator
  
Mark DiCiero

Phone
  
+1 760-650-9257

Type
  
Aviation Museum

Website
  
www.rotors.org

Founded
  
1992

Classic Rotors Museum

Location
  
Ramona Airport, Ramona, California, USA

Address
  
2690 Montecito Rd, Ramona, CA 92065, USA

Similar
  
Wings & Rotors Air Museum, Santa Maria Museum, Western Museum of Flight, Milestones of Flight Air Museum, Flying Leatherneck Aviation

Classic rotors museum hangar video 2


Classic Rotors is a flying aviation museum specializing in helicopters and other rotorcraft, located at the Ramona Airport in Ramona, California, United States.

Contents

The museum bills itself as "the rare and vintage rotorcraft museum" and claims to be one of the "three dedicated rotorcraft museums in the world".

Classic rotors museum hangar video 1


History

The museum was founded in 1992 by Mark DiCiero after he built and learned to fly his own helicopter. The museum is a non-profit and all-volunteer organization, with no paid staff. The museum currently has five helicopters in flying condition, which are flown in air displays.

The museum describes its mission as being:

Aircraft

The museum collection includes:

Airworthy
  • Hiller UH-12
  • Kamov Ka-26 - registered N4106H it was built in 1976
  • Piasecki H-21B - registered N64606, it is the only H-21 still flying today. Built in 1957, the helicopter was obtained by Classic Rotors on January 23, 1990 and restored to flying condition. In 2008 it had an engine failure resulting in an emergency landing in a field at a dairy farm in San Pasqual Valley in California. It was returned to the museum and repaired to flying condition again in October 2009. The cause of the engine failure was a spring on one of the pistons that broke.
  • Sikorsky H-19
    • On display
  • Aerospatiale SA 341
  • Brantly 305
  • Hiller Hornet
  • Jovair YH-30
  • MonteCopter 15 Tri-phibian
  • Piasecki HUP-1 Retriever
  • Rotorway 133 Scorpion
  • Sikorsky H03S
    • Under restoration
  • Hiller UH-12
  • Kaman HOK
  • Piasecki HUP-3
  • Sikorsky H-19 - Restoration almost completed in November 2009
    • Other
  • Vertol V-44B - Once obtained by the museum, it will be restored to flying condition.
  • Piasecki HUP-1 - Was the only HUP-1 still flying, until it was crashed in November 2009

    • References

    Classic Rotors Museum Wikipedia
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