Marine Corps Air Station Tustin - Wikipedia
Hangar No. 2 (South Hangar) at the former Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, California measures 1,072 feet (327 m) long by 292 feet (89 m) wide by 192 feet (59 m) tall. It and its sister structure (partially visible to the right) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark .
Tustin Hangars
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 …
Huge Tustin hangar fire destroys a relic of Orange County ...
Nov 7, 2023 · For more than 80 years, two massive domed hangars loomed over Tustin’s southern edge, a relic of Orange County’s military history hemmed in by an expanding suburban landscape that replaced...
Fire destroys massive, historic north hangar at shuttered ...
Nov 7, 2023 · A powerful fire ripped through one of two 17-story-high hangars still standing at the long-shuttered Tustin Marine Corps Air Station early Tuesday morning, Nov. 7, leading to a catastrophic...
Fire damages historic hangar at former Tustin Air Base – NBC ...
Nov 7, 2023 · Fire destroyed a historic World War II-era hangar early Tuesday at the former Tustin Air Base that was a significant part of Orange County's military history.
“The Tustin Hangars: Titans of History” examines the origin, construction and evolution of the hangars along with the support buildings around them and the Tustin air station itself, from its inception to the present.
Before and after: Photos show destruction of Tustin hangar by ...
Nov 14, 2023 · The two mostly wooden hangars – each is 17 stories tall, 1,000 feet long and 300 feet wide – were quickly built at the base to house 12 blimps to patrol the West Coast against Japanese submarines.