It stemmed from the founder Fred Ropkey's interest in military history and his past career as a tank platoon leader in the U.S. Marine Corps during the early 1950s.

The museum lives on today as the Ropkey Armor and Aviation Museum with renewed focus given to historic aircraft and aviation history.

[3][4] The museum collection consists of AFVs, soft skin vehicles, marine and aircraft.

This aircraft was used for early research into VTOL until it was written off in a landing accident in 1981.

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