Tustin Blimp Hangar Roof Collapse

A hangar roof collapsed monday morning in tustin damaging a 35 million experimental airship.

Tustin blimp hangar roof collapse.

Orange county supervisor todd spitzer said monday s partial roof collapse of an enormous world war ii era blimp hangar is the second incident in a week. Sam gangwer orange county register. See the collapsed roof. A technician works on the.

The aeroscraft helium filled airship sits at the back of the tustin blimp hangar after a 25 foot by 25 foot section of the roof collapsed and damaged the craft early monday morning. A section of the roof on the north tustin blimp hangar collapsed in 2013 sending debris down on an experimental helium filled airship being developed to ferry cargo. The former marine corps air station mcas is now a planned community called tustin legacy adjacent to the district shopping center. In october 2013 part of the roof collapsed damaging the airship prototype.

One of the hangars is currently open and rented out for events. Aerial view of the tustin blimp hangars in tustin california. Small pieces of wood fell from the hangar. Now held up by a tower on either side.

Tustin part of the roof of one of two historic marine corps air station hangars collapsed monday damaging a massive 35 million zeppelin inside and causing a helium leak. Chief pilot mark robinson flying over the site in a helicopter. The city of tustin and county of orange published a written history of the lighter than air blimp hangars at the former marine corps air station mcas tustin entitled the tustin hangars. But repair and maintenance costs are premature at the moment said anthony megliola the base closure manager for the former marine corps air station in tustin.