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

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.

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

It had been decided that an RAF airfield would be chosen, the aircraft hangars being ideal to house the large atomic piles that would need to be built.

In 1972 the Ministry of Defence began to house historically important aircraft in the hangars, which became the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

Additional improvements continued until 2008, these included the construction of two climate controlled hangars to house the American B-2 stealth bombers and a low observability maintenance dock.

The hangars are home to Calshot Activities Centre and house indoor climbing walls, artificial ski slopes and a velodrome.

The two listed hangars built to house the Sunderland flying boats used to guard the Western Approaches, have been rebuilt and now used for other uses.

For this reason, most hangars for hydrogen-based airships were sized to house only one or two such craft.

Lowry AFB's two massive hangars currently house the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum ( Hangar 1 and 2, Building 401 and 402, respectively ).

Basestars are biomechanical entities, with fleshy " hangars " to house Raiders.

Large hangars that can house Metal Marines.

Two large hangars ( now hangars 2 and 3 ) were authorised to house the aircraft, to be designed by the Department of Public Works chief design engineer Charles Turner.

In 14 months, workers at the new air station built two enormous wooden hangars, measuring long, wide and tall, to house an eight-ship fleet and to provide maintenance for blimps from other bases.

Brockway Glass Corporation, headquartered in nearby Brockway, Pennsylvania, constructed a corporate hangar on the apron to house their corporate aircraft ( and later a commuter airline service ), and Fixed Base Operator Beechwoods Flying Service constructed general aviation " T hangars ", fuel pumps and maintenance hangars.

The program was seriously hampered by the need to work in the open air in inclement weather, as many hangars were simply too small to house the aircraft indoors ; by delays in acquiring the necessary tools and support equipment, and by the USAAF's general lack of experience with the B-29.

By the summer of 1944 the airfield had evolved from a grass landing area with a few hangars to a four runway airfield with the infrastructure to house and operate three training squadrons using Barracuda torpedo bombers.

Interestingly, of the original he purchased in 1949, the Federal Government used eight hundred ( 800 ) acres to build the headquarters of Naval Air Station Richmond, a blimp base hastily constructed in the early months of World War II Richmond, and was eventually home to 25 K-series blimps, three hangars, and 3, 000 men.

On 25 January 1943 the airfield was reconstructed into a full size ‘ Class A ’ bomber station, with three concrete runways, steel hangars and new administration buildings.

There are three large hangars, a control tower, and numerous support buildings.

During its early years the airport had three hangars and an unpaved runway ; passenger and air mail service was provided by American Airlines and Chicago and Southern Air Lines ( acquired by Delta Air Lines in 1953 ).

The new airport had three asphalt runways, a three-story passenger terminal, a control tower, two hangars and a beacon, and was constructed at a cost of 1. 2 million dollars.

Construction involved improving runways and airplane hangars, with three concrete runways, several taxiways and a large parking apron and a control tower.

By 1945, five main hangars and three runways had been built at the site, which was also home to No. 9 Group RAF.

By June 1923, Wheeler boasted six 112x200 foot hangars, three used for housing shops and three others for planes, plus four hangars used as warehouses, and oil storage tanks holding 50, 000 gallons.

* In an Imperial Japanese Navy raid on a Nationalist Chinese airfield at Nanchang, three Japanese aircraft land on the field and their pilots disembark to shoot up Chinese personnel, barracks, and hangars and set Chinese aircraft on fire on foot before taking off and departing unscathed.

On normal duty the missiles were stored in hangars, and it took one to three hours to roll them out, fuel them, and reach launch readiness.

The new complex included three hangars, exhibition space, garages, and of course a large, modern terminal building with a concrete taxiway complete with stands for a number of aircraft.

Kirtland Air Force Base ’ s beginnings stem from three private airfields of 1928-1939 and are similar to that of other installations choosing to adapt existing runways and hangars for military use.

Construction involved runways and airplane hangars, with three concrete runways, several taxiways and a large parking apron and a control tower.

In early 1943, three T-2 hangars were erected on the north side of the airfield for glider storage, 40 Horsa Gliders being dispersed at Lakenheath during that year.

An Orbiter Processing Facility ( OPF ) was one of three hangars where U. S. space shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights.

The facility currently houses three hangars, one leased by Boeing ( designed to accommodiate Boeing 767-400 class aircraft ), a second hangar for 767 for lease, and a third hangar designed to accommodate Boeing 707-300 class aircraft.

Duxford featured three double bay hangars of First World War vintage, which together provided over 9000 m < sup > 2 </ sup > of space.

Listed buildings include three hangars dating back to the First World War and the operations block, which received Grade II * status.

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.

The airfield closed in 1957 after the disbandment of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, but the three pairs of Belfast Truss hangars, erected in 1917, survived the closure.

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.

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.

The original terminal building and hangars are still in use ; the terminal has been restored and has rental office space and the hangars are still hangars.

On February 27, 2008, Yeager's Governing Board voted to close the secondary runway, Rwy 15 / 33, to allow for the construction of two new hangars and additional ramp space for four additional C-130s to be based at the Air National Guard facility.

They include hangars and protected areas with a combined total of of space.

The MROTC complex is planned as a major military and commercial aircraft facility with 17 hangars and more than one million square feet of related industrial space and education and training facilities.

In some cases it is used as an external " door " to hangars on spacecraft, to prevent the ship's internal atmosphere from venting into outer space.

On a dare Takaya is sent into the hangars and meets a male space pilot named Toren Smith.