Official US Army Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) OH-58D Kiowa Warrior Patch — DoD Aviation Depot-Level Maintenance Embroidered Patch
Where Army rotary-wing aircraft come for the deepest maintenance — CCAD, OH-58D Kiowa Warriors, NAS Corpus Christi.
Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) is the United States Army's premier rotary-wing aviation depot-level maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facility, located on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, and operating as a tenant of the Naval Air Station under US Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM). Established in 1961, CCAD is the Department of Defense's largest helicopter MRO facility, employing over 3,500 civilian Army artisans, engineers, and technicians who perform depot-level overhaul, recapitalization, and crash-damage repair on the Army's fleet of UH-60 Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook, and the now-retired OH-58D Kiowa Warrior — as well as engine, transmission, blade, and avionics component overhaul for sister-service helicopters across the joint force. The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, the armed reconnaissance variant of the Bell OH-58 Kiowa light observation helicopter, served the US Army from 1985 until its 2017 retirement, and CCAD was the depot home for every Kiowa Warrior overhaul, weapons-system upgrade, and combat-loss recapitalization across more than three decades of service in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. This CCAD OH-58D Kiowa Warrior patch honors both the depot artisans who kept the Army's lightest scout-attack helicopter combat-ready and the Kiowa community itself.
Perfect For: Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) civilian artisans, engineers, and Department of the Army leadership, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior pilots, crew chiefs, and maintainers, US Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) personnel, NAS Corpus Christi residents and South Texas defense community, OH-58 Kiowa heritage veterans, and US Army aviation MRO/depot maintenance professionals.
CCAD — depth maintenance for Army aviation since 1961.