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Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue & Ellis, adjacent to Taxi, Fairfield, Solano County, CA
Locationadjacent to Taxi,
Fairfield, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2669-B
Building/structure dates:
1955 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1961 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1965 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1966 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1970 subsequent work
Significance: Building 810 is significant as an excellent example of a double-cantilever, medium bomber hangar used for maintenance of the B-36. It was one of the first such double-bay bomber hangars erected nationwide by the Strategic Air Command (SAC). The B-36 was SAC's first long-range, intercontinental bomber carrying nuclear weapons, the only aircraft during the early years of the Cold War capable of reaching - and returning from - the Soviet Union. This maintenance hangar, in response to the size of the bomber, was monumental. Similar structures were built at SAC installations between 1952 and 1957. The double-cantilever, B-36 hangar was one of the first symbolic military structures of the Cold War; its physical size foreshadowed the moleholes and alert apron of the B-52 and KC-135 tanker.
Related Names
Snyder, John, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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