Marine Corps Air Station Tustin - Wikipedia
A March, 1966 photo of a CH-46A "Sea Knight" helicopter from HMM-165, with one of Tustin's massive blimp hangars in the background. A USMC CH-53D "Sea Stallion" helicopter undergoes maintenance inside one of MCAS Tustin's giant blimp hangars, date unknown.
Tustin Hangars | Tustin, CA
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 history …
2023年11月7日 · 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...
two blimp hangars at the former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps air station in Tustin, California. The hangars were built early in World War II to house manned blimps or, in Navy terminology, non-rigid lighter-than-air (LTA) airships. “The Tustin Hangars: …
Raging fire destroys massive World War II-era blimp hangar in …
2023年11月8日 · Firefighters work to control a blaze at the north blimp hangar at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in Tustin, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Fire raged Tuesday in a massive World War II-era wooden hangar that was built to house military blimps based in Southern California.
Historic blimp hangar's massive doors are coming down; Tustin …
2023年12月8日 · Crews on Thursday began deconstructing the remnants of a historic blimp hangar in Tustin that caught fire exactly a month ago and burned for weeks, prompting frustration and fear among...
Massive fire destroys historic WWII blimp hangar in Tustin
2023年11月8日 · In what onlookers described as "tragic" and "disappointing," a massive fire destroyed one of two historic blimp hangars at the former Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin on Tuesday.
History of the Tustin Blimp Hangars - Tustin Area Historical Society
The former Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Tustin (aka, Tustin Blimp Hangars) was initially established as a Navy lighter-than-air (LTA) base and commissioned in the fall of 1942. The station was used to support observation blimps and personnel that were necessary to conduct antisubmarine patrols off the Southern California coast during World ...
Before and after: Photos show destruction of Tustin hangar by …
2023年11月14日 · In the early hours of Nov. 7, firefighters responded to reports of a blaze at the north hangar. The cause is still under investigation. The two mostly wooden hangars – each is 17 stories tall,...
Fire Destroys World War II-Era Blimp Hangar in California
2023年11月7日 · A fire on Tuesday destroyed a cavernous wooden blimp hangar in Tustin, Calif., that played a pivotal role during World War II, the authorities said.