Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

After the crash, Floyd Bennett Field's empty hangars were used as a makeshift morgue for the identification of crash victims.

An airport consists of at least one surface such as a runway for a plane to take off and land, a helipad, or water for takeoffs and landings, and often includes buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminal buildings.

This allowed ships to wait within a gated space while the water could be drained to appropriate levels ; the Chinese also built roofed hangars over the space to add further protection for the ships.

Its signature tri-tail was the result of many initial customers not having hangars tall enough for a conventional tail.

The main airport apron has recently been enlarged ; the one remaining hangar on the old south camp has been totally re-clad and a planning application has been posted for further hangars on the eastern side.

Within a record 60 days, the grain stubble-covered plain of Moreno Valley had been partially transformed to include twelve hangars, six barracks equipped for 150 men each, mess halls, a machine shop, post exchange, hospital, a supply depot, an aero repair building, bachelor officer's quarters and a residence for the commanding officer.

Headquarters, Aviation Engineer Force administered the base for the next six years while a runway was laid down, and appropriate support facilities ( hangars, maintenance shops, warehouses, barracks, and other infrastructure was laid out and constructed.

This is a municipal facility, and has hangars available for those who want them.

In 1927, one of the wooden shop hangars was remodeled to provide space for a barracks and a mess hall incident to the formation of a pursuit group.

During the next 24 years, Airborne invested more than $ 250 million to build a hub for its national delivery network, including new sort centers, a runway, aircraft hangars, machine shops, flight simulators, a state of art control tower, and a modern administration building to accommodate an estimated 6, 000 employees and its fleet of 125 DC-8, DC-9 and Boeing 767 aircraft.

After renting summer houses for a couple of years he bought two large hangars and some smaller buildings, and started to permanently install his art.

The Tullahoma Regional Airport operates on an airport originally constructed in 1942 for the U. S. Army Air Corps and features wide heavy duty runways, a large ramp, taxiways and large hangars.

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First, in the mid-1950s, came a new assembly hall for the Vickers Viscount known as ' B. 1 ' ( presumably as it consisted of a number of standard war-time B. 1 type hangars re-used ( together with some T. 2 hangars too ) and rebuilt as one long double bay structure parallel to the runway.

By the late 1930s, air traffic from Liverpool was beginning to take off with increasing demand for Irish Sea crossings, and a distinctive passenger terminal, control tower and two large aircraft hangars were built.

The two art deco style hangars that flank the terminal and apron have also been converted for new uses.

Funds from the lease were used to purchase additional land for new hangars and a production plant for Boeing Aircraft of Canada.

The transformation plans also calls for a construction of two 42 meters by 47 meters maintenance, repair and overhaul hangars and ten 36 meter by 36 meter parking hangars.

The technical site, connected to the ground station and airfield consisted of at least two T-2 type hangars and various organizational, component and field maintenance shops along with the crew chiefs and other personnel necessary to keep the aircraft airworthy and to quickly repair light and moderate battle damage.

When the 78 ships and 133 aircraft home ported there are not at sea, they are alongside one of the 14 piers or inside one of the 15 aircraft hangars for repair, refit, training and to provide the ship's or squadron's crew an opportunity to be with their families.

Other minor developments have seen new airfield lighting installed and £ 250k that had originally been set aside to replace the condemned roof on one of the hangars has been instead used on much needed repair works on the terminal.

The technical site, connected to the ground station and airfield consisted of at least two T-2 type hangars and various component maintenance shops to keep aircraft airworthy ( see 1st Tactical Air Depot below ) and to repair aircraft severely damaged in combat.

The technical site, connected to the ground station and airfield consisted of at least two T-2 type hangars and various organizational, component and field maintenance shops along with the crew chiefs and other personnel necessary to keep the aircraft airworthy and to quickly repair light and moderate battle damage.

The technical site, connected to the ground station and airfield consisted of at least two T-2 type hangars and various component maintenance shops to keep the aircraft airworthy and to quickly repair light and moderate battle damage.

Other surviving features during the entire period of the airfield's use as RAF Gatow ( 1945 – 1994 ) included light bulbs in the main hangars, many of which dated from the 1930s.

The hurricane caused $ 60 million ( 1945 US dollars ) in damage and 26 deaths, including a firefighter trying to put out a fire in the Richmond Naval Air Station in southeastern Florida where three light hangars exploded when high winds ignited a high-octane gas fire.

It has four hangars and parking for light aircraft, an office and vehicle parking.

The facility of the airport comprises an aircraft refueling area, designated aircraft and land vehicle parking areas, historic and private hangars, a small terminal ( building ), and a signal tower light.

Put aircraft in `` bomb-proof '' hangars when they are on the ground.

Many private pilot owners base their aircraft in the airfield's several hangars.

The Phase One airport had sixty contact piers, twenty remote parking bays with eighty aircraft parking positions, four maintenance hangars and fire stations.

Many homes have aircraft hangars ( oversized garages ) which house personal aircraft, allowing residents to commute from home to work entirely by air.

Although the original air station air traffic control tower is still standing, attached to one of the former Navy aircraft hangars, the airfield remains an uncontrolled facility.

View of Robins Air Depot aircraft hangars and maintenance building

Some post-production editing was also done in old aircraft hangars on the base as well.

The first permanent aircraft hangars were completed in 1921.

At Kenley, all ten hangars and twelve aircraft, including ten Hurricanes, were destroyed and the runways badly cratered.

In the mid-50s Avianca built in Soledad one of the most important aviation maintenance shops in Latin America, two large hangars were built to house several aircraft at once.

Arlanda has hangars and aircraft maintenance facilities operated by SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Priority Aero Maintenance.

Some airbases have hardened aircraft shelters, or even underground hangars, to protect aircraft from enemy attack.

The southside was used for aircraft maintenance, utilising wartime-built hangars.

The original facility would consist of one runway, one terminal building, and a few hangars and other aircraft related buildings.

The Kentucky Air National Guard moved its base to SDF with 8 military aircraft ; a new UPS air mail facility, new corporate hangars, a 4 level parking garage and a new control tower were also added.

Scottish Aviation built a factory using the original terminal building and hangars at Prestwick, which produced such aircraft as the Prestwick Pioneers, and later the Jetstream and Bulldog.

McIntyre Field had three hangars to house 40 aircraft and a beacon for landings after sundown.

Aer Lingus, Ryanair, CityJet, Eirtech and Dublin Aerospace have aircraft maintenance hangars and facilities at Dublin Airport.

Training aircraft and hangars at Daniel Field, about 1943