Fire damages Historic Tustin Blimp Hangar

[JAWS]

Sadly the Historic MCAS Tustin Number 1 Blimp Hangar caught fire this morning and was extensively damaged

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... -in-tustin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWMu4hlBJ1g

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Co ... ion_Tustin

[Gruncle 01]

I hope you do not mind me just adding this picture to your post. It is a photograph that I took in 1997 when we had a base tour. It just shows the beautiful construction of in particular of the inside of the hangar.
Blimp Hangar at USMC Tustin in 1997 by Michael Skinner, on Flickr

[JAWS]

Not at all, thanks for posting that Michael , it was an incredible structure, shame to see it destroyed.

[MikeH]

That's a shame. Incredible structures that I visited on the 18th September 1979. This photo of CH-53A Sea Stallion,153293 of HMH 363, gives an idea of the scale of one (don't know if its the North or South hangar,) when it was still in use as a store for countless US Marine Corps helicopters.
CH-53A-Tustin-153293-18SE79 by Michael Hall, on Flickr

Tustin-View-18SE79 by Michael Hall, on Flickr