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The hangar at its opening in 1933. Designed by German air ship and structural engineer Dr. Karl Arnstein, Vice President and Director of Engineering for the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, Ohio, in collaboration with Wilbur Watson Associates Architects and Engineers of Cleveland, Ohio, Hangar One is constructed on a network of steel girders sheathed with galvanized steel.
In 1960, the nearby Air Force Satellite Test Center (STC), was created adjacent to (on the SE corner of) NAS Moffett Field. Often referred to as "the Blue Cube," it was operational until 2010 as Onizuka Air Force Station, part of the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). The building was demolished in 2014.
Hangar 9 is a historic aircraft hangar at Brooks City-Base, the former Brooks Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas.Built in 1918, it is the oldest U.S. Air Force aircraft storage and repair facility, and is the only surviving hangar, other than the ASUW Shellhouse, from World War I.
Hickam Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lieutenant Colonel Horace Meek Hickam.The installation merged in 2010 with Naval Station Pearl Harbor to become part of the newly formed Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, on the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi.
In 2018, Yankee Lady and another operational B-17, Aluminum Overcast, were on hand with re-enactors for the debut of the famous Memphis Belle bomber at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. [7] The plane played a role in the 2022 movie Wolf Hound , about a Luftwaffe special operations unit, KG 200 , that flew Allied aircraft.
After World War II plans were made up for building underground hangars at every air force base that had suitable rock conditions. These ambitious building plans proved to be too expensive and were reduced to hangars at certain select air bases. [11] A second underground hangar was built in 1947 at Södertörn Wing (F 18). [10]
A double cantilever hangar is a type of hangar that was constructed by the United States Air Force during the Cold War.Large hangars were constructed at Castle Air Force Base, Carswell Air Force Base, Loring Air Force Base, McGuire Air Force Base, and Pease Air Force Base, while smaller hangars were constructed at Edwards Air Force Base, Hanscom Air Force Base, Homestead Air Force Base, March ...
In UFO conspiracy theories, "Hangar 18" is the name given to a building that allegedly contained UFO debris or alien bodies. The name was popularized by conspiracy theorist Robert Spencer Carr in 1974, who claimed the hangar was located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio; the USAF denies the existence of this hanger.