I worked on the site of the 1910 Wright Aircraft Company hangar at Huffman
Prairie, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, several years ago.  One of the first
hangars in the world.  USACERL (Champaign, Illinois) should be able to
direct you to the report; I have yet to see it.




At 02:15 PM 8/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have just run across a difficult problem that I thought, perhaps, someone
>out there might be able to help with.  We are researching an early airplane
>hanger structure located on a small municipal airport runway.  It is still in
>use and was built in 1939.  It is a stand alone wood frame, corregated metal
>sided clearstory structure.  All other buildings at the airport date from at
>least the 1960s.  There is no statewide context for civilian aircraft
>structures in Utah; there is barely a history of civilian aviation.  There
>are good military aviation context documents here, but civilian is fairly
>invisible.  Are there sources for civilian aviation architecture, runway
>development and related subjects that anyone knows of nationally for this
>time period, particularly in Western rural states?
>
>Mike Polk
>Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.C.
>Ogden, Utah
>