Official Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) patch.
World's largest helicopter repair facility — Hueys to Apaches, since 1961.
Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) is the U.S. Army's primary rotary-wing depot maintenance, overhaul, and modernization center — and the world's largest helicopter repair facility — located on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. The depot was established on March 10, 1961 as the U.S. Army Transportation Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center (ARADMAC) with just 12 employees, and was renamed Corpus Christi Army Depot on June 28, 1974. By the end of its first full year of operation, ARADMAC had overhauled 28 Army aircraft and 153 engines with a workforce of 1,249 civilians and 14 military personnel. In 1962 the first UH-1 "Huey" was overhauled, and by 1968 the depot was operating at full Vietnam-surge capacity — repairing and overhauling approximately 400 helicopters per year. Through the 1980s CCAD added the CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache, and UH-60 Black Hawk to the line, becoming the largest single employer in South Texas and growing into a 158-acre industrial complex with 2.2 million square feet of shop floor. Today CCAD employs over 3,100 workers and generates more than $800 million in annual revenue — and through fiscal year 2010 alone, the depot had produced or repaired 14,315 helicopters, 97,243 engines, and 1,886,503 components. From the AH-6 to the AH-64E, the OH-58D to the UH-60V, and now into the next-generation Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, CCAD keeps Army aviation flying. This patch is for every CCAD artisan who turns a wrench.
Perfect For: Corpus Christi Army Depot artisans and civilian workforce, NAS Corpus Christi tenants, Army Aviation depot-maintenance professionals, AH-64 Apache / UH-60 Black Hawk / CH-47 Chinook maintainers, AMCOM personnel, and South Texas military industrial heritage collectors.
CCAD — world's largest helicopter shop, since 1961.
