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Tustin, California
The final design for the hangars was completed in the fall of 1942. Construction began on Hangar 1, also called Building 28, in October 1942, under Navy contract No. 5421, and was completed in July 1943. Construction on Hangar 2, or Building 29 began in December 1942 and was completed in September 1943.
The wooden hangars were built to store blimps that the U.S. Navy used to patrol the southern California coastline for enemy submarines during WWII. The buildings were decommissioned in 1949 after the blimp base was no longer needed.
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There were 17 blimp hangars built and 6 remain.
Tillamook, Oregon
Has 1 There were 2 but one burned down in August 1992.
The remaining is owned by the Port of Tillamook and houses the Tillamook Air Museum  
Sunnyvale, California
Moffett Air Field
Has 2
Hangar 1 is owned by NASA and is leased to Planetary Ventures, a subsidiary of Google and the lease is 1.16 Billion dollars
for 60 years. They are completely renovating it and expected to complete it by 2025.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
Has 2. They are used as a mock aircraft carrier landing deck to train plots and flight deck personnel
Tustin, California
Has 1 There were 2 but one burned down in November 2023.
From WikipediA:
In the United States the Navy began producing non-rigid airships during World War I. The Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar in Suffield, Ohio was constructed in 1917 by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for the production of non-rigid airships and training.
Hangar No 1 at Lakehurst Naval Airship Station was built in 1921 to house the Navy's future rigid airships. Additional hangars, which housed the USS Akron (ZRS-4) and USS Macon (ZRS-5), exist in Akron, Ohio (the Goodyear Airdock, 1929) and Sunnyvale, California (Hangar One, Moffett Federal Airfield, 1932). The ships were constructed in Akron. The Akron was based in Lakehurst while the Macon was based at Moffett Field. During World War II, seventeen large hangars were built to house US Navy blimps.
Today, six of these wooden hangars still exist: Moffett Field (2), Tustin, California (1), Tillamook, Oregon (1),
Lakehurst, New Jersey (2). |
American Blimp Corporation / Moffett Field Blimp Hangars 2 and 3 ?
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