McCulloch HUM-1
Pima Air and Space Museum Aircraft
Manufacturer
McCulloch
Markings
Naval Air Technical Center, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland, 1953
Designation
HUM-1
Registration
N4072K
Serial Number
133817
McCulloch HUM-1
The HUM-1 is a small two passenger utility helicopter originally designed by the Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation in 1948. The design was taken up by the McCulloch Motors Corporation and offered to the U.S. Army as the XH-30 and to the Navy as the HUM-1. Three were built for the Army and two for the Navy in 1953. Neither service was able to find a use for the tiny helicopters and they were returned to McCulloch. A civil version, the MC-4, was likewise unable to generate any sales and McCulloch lost interest in the project and turned it back over to the original designer D. K. Jovanovich.