Airship hangar

The construction of the first operational rigid airship LZ1 by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin started in 1899 in a floating hangar on Lake Constance at Manzell today part of Friedrichshafen.

For the same reason later rotating hangars were built at Biesdorf (today part of Berlin) and at the Nordholz Airbase, to the south of Cuxhaven in Germany.

The American Melvin Vaniman constructed big tent hangars in France particularly for the French army.

This required the big construction sheds in Barrow-in-Furness, Inchinnan, Barlow and Cardington, and the rigid airship war stations at Longside, East Fortune, Howden, Pulham (Norfolk) and Kingsnorth.

[2] In 1924, the Imperial Airship Communications scheme planned to extend mail and passenger service to British India, so an 859-foot hangar was constructed at Karachi (now in Pakistan) in 1929.

Planned by the engineer Eugene Freyssinet, the 300 metre-long buildings were an important innovation according to the construction and aesthetic of the design.

Today, five of these wooden hangars still exist: Moffett Field (1), Tustin, California (1), Tillamook, Oregon (1), Lakehurst, New Jersey (2).

Hangar Y, Chalais-Meudon near Paris, France 2002
Zeppelin Hangar , Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport , Santa Cruz , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Hangars of the former Royal Airship Works at Cardington, Bedfordshire , England, 2013
The reconstructed Airship Hangar at Farnborough
A view of six US Navy blimps in one of the two hangars located at NAS Santa Ana, California
Hangar No. 2 at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
LTA Hangar built by African American Seabees of the 80th Naval Construction Battalion at Carlsen Field Trinidad , B.W.I. for ZP-51 of Fleet Airship Wing 5 in 1943
Exterior view of hangar at the former Brand-Briesen Airfield , built for Cargolifter