Hangar One, a historic 1933 airship hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield, has been successfully restored after decades of environmental contamination from its original building materials.
The restoration was undertaken by Google Planetary Ventures as part of a 2015 lease agreement, preventing earlier Navy plans for demolition and returning the landmark to historical accuracy and environmental safety.
Hangar One, the airship hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) in Santa Clara County, California, has been restored. The hangar was built in 1933 to house the USSMacon, a 146-foot-tall and 785-foot-long dirigible operated by the U.S. Navy. The building dominates the landscape of the airport that lies on the south end of San Francisco Bay.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
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