The coat of arms of the German Army Aviation Corps depicts a red eagle, swooping down whilst carrying a sword in its claws.

After the foundation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, the first head of the department of the German Army Aviation Corps, Colonel Horst Pape, was appointed on 7 November 1956.

Until 1990, the German Army Aviation Corps was restricted to see active service only during aid mission within Germany and NATO countries.

Since the mid-1990s, it has been increasingly deployed in a support rôle in several countries for as varying bodies as the United Nations, NATO and the EU, first in Iraq after the 1st Gulf War, then on the Balkans with IFOR, KFOR, SFOR and EUFOR, and most recently in Afghanistan as part of ISAF and most recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of EUFOR RD Congo to support the UN mission MONUC to monitor the general elections in 2006.

[3] Since 2020 the German Army Aviation Corpse consists of one brigade level unit called Helicopter Command.

[4] The German Army Aviation Corps is equipped with: Currently active regiments as part of Helicopter Command: