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File:Detail, building 810, oblique view to northwest of buttressed end wall, 135mm lens. - Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue and Ellis, adjacent to Taxiway HABS CAL,48-FAIR,2B-6.tif

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Detail, building 810, oblique view to northwest of buttressed end wall, 135mm lens. - Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue and Ellis, adjacent to Taxiway V and W, Fairfield, Solano County, CA
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Snyder, John

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Maul, David, transmitter
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Detail, building 810, oblique view to northwest of buttressed end wall, 135mm lens. - Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue and Ellis, adjacent to Taxiway V and W, Fairfield, Solano County, CA
Depicted place California; Solano County; Fairfield
Date 1999
date QS:P571,+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,48-FAIR,2B-6
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  • 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.
  • 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
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2805.photos.377497p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location38° 14′ 57.98″ N, 122° 02′ 20″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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