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 | This hangar was partial moved in 1923 from the airship station Baden-Baden-Oos to Auggen. It was rebuild for the Karl Richtberg AG as a lumber mill hall.
The hangar was build for the Deutsche Luftschiff AG from MAN (Werk Gustavsburg) in 1910. |  | 11/21/2008 | 119 | 
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 | The Hangar was built in order to provide South Italy with an air defence by airships against the continuous attacks from German u-boats during the First world war.Its costruction began in 1917.They intended to finish it in very short time,but it was not possible and when it was really finished,the war had already ended and all the strategic efforts seemed to be useless. However it became operat... | | 11/21/2008 | 182 |
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 | A settlement of Vinogradovo situated in the place of the modern town was known at least since the 17th century. Then a railway was built in 1900s and a railway platform was built in 1914. The settlement started to develop as an airship manufacturing plant was built there in 1931. The aeronautic engineer Umberto Nobile worked there for five years during the 1930s. For a few years during the 1930... | | 11/21/2008 | 362 |
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 | The Germans need for airships grew fast in the first months of the war, and already in September 1914 it was suggested to build an airship base in Tønder. The first 2 sheds where finished in March 1915. Their dimensions were 540 feet long, 95 feet high and 120 feet wide.
On the March 23 1915 the first airship, Parceval PL 25, arrived in Tønder. This non-rigid airship was based in... | | 08/29/2009 | 47 |
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 | In France few big hangars had been built, because with the “Spies” there was only one attempt to built a rigid airship. Nevertheless at the end of the First World War an airship station for rigid airships was built in Cuers-Pierrefeu by adding the parts of smaller hangars to two big ones.
At the airport at Paris-Orly two concrete hangars (demolished in 1942) were built between 1... |  | 11/21/2008 | 91 |
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 | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's Wingfoot Lake Airship Base, sometimes called "The Kitty Hawk of Lighter-Than-Air," is the oldest airship base in the United States. The Spirit of Goodyear blimp is based at this facility at Suffield,OH.
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 | During the second world war there was a barrage balloon testing station here and this large shed was used to store the balloon. A large number of different trials and experiments took place here and nearby. | | 11/19/2009 | 17 |
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 | Build as a airship factory, but today it's an indoor tropical waterpark. |  | 03/30/2006 | 283 |
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 | The Blister Hangar a cheap and simple aircraft hangar.
This is an airstrip used for Army cooperation on Salisbury Plain Military Training Area. There were two hangars here but one blew down in strong winds. | | 04/19/2008 | 209 |
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 | A former aircraft hangar, now part of terminal facilities at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. It is amongst the earliest surviving examples of airport buildings in the United Kingdom. It was built by Sir A.J. Cobham with Sir J.Burnet and Partners as an aircraft hangar in the late 1930s. It has a steel superstructure with brick cladding. It features large hangar doors between brick piers, with sto... | | 09/30/2008 | 400 |
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 | Here you see a ring transit shed for locomatives in Krefeld, Germany. | | 08/31/2006 | 172 |
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 | The Riga Central Market was build from two airship hangars. These hangars came from the former WW I airship station Wainoden (Vaiņode), Courland. The two hangars were 240m long and had a volume of 70.500m³. They were named "Walhalla" and "Walther" and build by Seibert Company from Saarbrucken.
In 1924 the hangars was bought by the council of Riga to build up the Central Mark... | | 11/18/2008 | 531 |
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