Seventeen stories high, over 1,000 feet long and 300 feet wide, the hangars were, and still are, two of the largest wooden structures ever built. Designing and building the two structures in 1942, during wartime, on a hyper-accelerated schedule and with a nearly all-wood design, is what earned the hangars their 1993 listing by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the “Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks” of the 20th Century Named: Naval Air Station Santa Ana 1942 / Marine Corps Air Facility Sa
Links: Libraey of Congress Marine Corps Air Station Tustin ( PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING ) Visiting with Huell Howser California's Gold Huts and Hangers – California’s Gold (602) - (28:49 sec) Visiting MCAS Tustin – Visiting (722) - (30:52 sec) Visiting Tustin – Visiting (1509) - (27:58 sec) KCAL NEWS Efforts underway to "deconstruct" World War 2 blimp hangar in Tustin - Link NAVY AVIATOR CDR. DON MORRIS USN RET. TELLS ABOUT HIS FLYING AIRSHIPS BACK IN 1954 TO 1957 AT LAKEHUST Naval Airship Pilot" Part 1 -- Cdr.
In 2013 I asked the Mayor of Tustin, The Tustin Area Historical Society and The American Legion to help host a tour of the south hangar. Its purpose was to give people a chance to see inside the hangar but also to open it up for people who served there as military and support workers. As it turned out, it became more of a reunion than a tour. In some cases for older workers in the 1940's and 50's it was a farewell to past old friends. We even had one of the last living World War II blimp pilots there! It wa
Save The Hangars - Tustin, California (CA)
Save The Hangars - Tustin, California (CA)
Save The Hangars - Tustin, California (CA)
Save The Hangars - Tustin, California (CA)
OC Vets - Orange County Veterans - California (CA)
OC Vets - Orange County Veterans - California (CA)