2 days ago · The airfield Expansion Period, from 1934-39, led to the need for a new permanent hangar for RAF airfields, catering for the need to house larger aircraft. This hangar became known as the Type C and allowed aircraft manufacturers to …

The Type-C hangar is a specific design of aircraft hangar built by the Royal Air Force during its expansion period of the 1930s. The hangar type generally measured 300 feet (91 m) in length, with a width of 152 feet 5 inches (46.46 m), and a clear height of 35 feet 4 inches (10.77 m).

A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack. Cost considerations and building practicalities limit their use to fighter size aircraft.

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Lamella Aircraft Storage Shed. Example seen at Shawbury, Shropshire. Mainhill Hangar. Example seen at Yeovilton, Somerset. Ministry Of Aircraft Production (MAP) Type 'R' Hangar. Example seen at Elstree, Hertfordshire. NATO Hardened Aircraft Shelter. Example seen at Laarbruch, Germany. NATO Hardened Aircraft Shelter.

Four type C aircraft sheds (hangars) built under the 1930s RAF Expansion Scheme.

Storemen stack 250-lb medium capacity bombs in one of the tunnels at RAF Fauld.. Over a hundred sites were considered and rejected for the RAF's underground storage; many had been pre-empted by the Army and the War Office.A survey in 1929–30 by the Army had found few sites to be satisfactory with regard to capacity, accessibility, locality and safety.

Dec 1, 2005 · This pair of concrete hangars comprise innovative types of structure at RAF Kemble, the most outstanding military airfield site in Britain to display such a range of advanced hangar types in combination with an airfield landscape of a pioneering type that anticipated wartime developments.

3 days ago · Along with nearby St. Athan, Llandow was originally devised as one of the massive new Aircraft Storage Unit (ASU) airfields anticipated before World War Two to hold and prepare the increasing numbers of aircraft entering RAF service.

22 hours ago · U.S. Airmen assigned to the 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron show storage units to personnel from RAF Waddington at RAF Mildenhall, England, Jan. 16, 2025. The unit contained parts used for the aircraft assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing. Personnel from RAF Waddington visited the installation to tour the supply storage and discuss ...