U.S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND
///// A Corpus Christi Army Depot aircraft production artisan repairs an aft fuselage section of an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior crash battle damaged helicopter.
Corpus christi army depot Corpus Christi, Texas
History The Army Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center began operations in 1961. The center was tasked with helicopter repair and maintenance for three different engines and four airframes. The first Huey UH-1 helicopter was overhauled in
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1962, and by 1968 the facility was in full operation. In 1974, the name was changed to CCAD, employing more than 4,500 civilian employees and serving the growing inventory of Army helicopters. In August 2001, CCAD was designated a Department of Defense (DoD) Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for rotary-wing aircraft. Installation Overview CCAD is the largest tenant organization on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi with more than 158 acres and 2.2 million square feet of industrial space. With a workforce of more than 5,900 and annual revenue greater than $1.4 billion, CCAD is a major employer/economic engine for the south Texas region. Offering virtually year-round ideal weather for flight testing, the depot is DoD’s primary facility for rotary-wing repair. The facilities include extensive test, maintenance, and hangars. The vast installation includes a wide range of engine, transmission, and gear box test cells, two blade whirl towers, autoclaves, and is the DoD’s only facility with the ability to refurbish multiservice, multifunction component bearings.
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Mission Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) ensures aviation readiness through overhaul, repair, modification, recapitalization, retrofit, testing, and modernization of helicopters, engines, and components for UH-60 Black Hawk, CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache, OH58 Kiowa, Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk, and components on the Air Force and Navy UH-1N Hueys and Marine Corps AH-1W. Eighty percent of the total workload is component repair: transmission gearboxes, rotor blades, rotor head controls, engines, engine components, hydro-mechanical units, and avionics. This effort includes worldwide on-site field maintenance teams, analytical crash investigations, and chemical material process facilities. CCAD serves as a depot training base for active-duty Army, National Guard, Reserve, and foreign military personnel.