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40-577: The CBHC has a 64,000-square-foot (5,900 m) hangar containing more than thirty aircraft exhibits. It is now also home to the Entomica Insectarium . The museum occupies a historically significant air base first established by the Ontario Provincial Air Service in 1924. The Centre's operating revenues are derived from sales from the gift shop, admission fees, and membership dues. The centre does not rely on operating support from

80-447: A desirable place to live since it is close to major centres of employment such as BAE Systems , and Defence Equipment & Support at Abbey Wood . Filton's educational facilities include South Gloucestershire and Stroud College , Abbeywood Community School and several primary schools. The University of the West of England is at nearby Frenchay . Filton has two main shopping areas –

120-565: A golf course and the former Filton Airport (closed in 2012). Filton can be reached from Junction 1 of the M32 motorway , or from Junction 16 of the M5 motorway . The town is well served by rail with Filton Abbey Wood serving areas in the south of the town, Bristol Parkway serving areas to the north and east and Patchway in the west of the town. Districts within the town include East Filton, Filton Park and Northville. East Filton, which has grown up east of

160-610: A group of houses"), from * haim ("home, village, hamlet") and gard ("yard"). The term, gard , comes from the Old Norse garðr ("enclosure, garden"). Hangars are used for protection from the weather, direct sunlight and for maintenance, repair, manufacture, assembly and storage of aircraft. The Wright brothers stored and repaired their aircraft in a wooden hangar constructed in 1902 at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina for their glider . After completing design and construction of

200-508: A population of 59,495 in 2011. Filton is an ethnically diverse town, with a proportion of white British residents close to the national average. Filton Town Council is a parish council made up of thirteen councillors and forming the first tier of local government. Filton was in Gloucestershire until 1974 when it became part of the newly formed county of Avon . In 1996 the Avon authority

240-724: Is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire , England, 6 miles (10 km) north of Bristol . Along with nearby Patchway and Bradley Stoke , Filton forms part of the Bristol urban area and has become an overflow settlement for the city. Filton Church dates back to the 12th century and is designated a Grade II listed building . The name of the town comes from the Old English feleþe (hay), and tūn (farm, field). The name dates back to at least 1187. Filton has large areas of open space which include several playing fields,

280-701: Is in Akron, Ohio and the structure was completed on November 25, 1929. The Airdock was used for the construction of the USS Akron and her sister ship, the USS Macon . Hangar One at Moffett Federal Field (formerly Naval Air Station Moffett Field ), is located in Mountain View , California. The structure was completed in 1931. It housed the USS Macon . The U.S. Navy established more airship operations during WWII. As part of this, ten "lighter-than-air" (LTA) bases across

320-454: Is on floatplanes , bush planes, waterbombers , and forest fire fighting equipment along with other aviation and forestry-related artifacts. Hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft . Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from Middle French hanghart ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish * haimgard ("home-enclosure", "fence around

360-461: Is to the south. Housing in Filton Park is mainly privately owned, semi-detached and 1930s built. Pre- World War I properties in the district tend to be quite large, with generous gardens. Extensive playing fields border the north-western side of Southmead Road. The golf links, on the hillside beyond, is owned by Filton Golf Club. The area has a primary school and a playgroup. Filton Park is regarded as

400-667: The Wright Flyer in Ohio , the brothers returned to Kill Devil Hills only to find their hangar damaged. They repaired the structure and constructed a new workshop while they waited for the Flyer to be shipped. Carl Richard Nyberg used a hangar to store his 1908 Flugan (fly) in the early 20th century and in 1909, Louis Bleriot crash-landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte and Calais ) and rolled his monoplane into

440-569: The Bristol-South Wales railway line and is mostly in the neighbouring civil parish of Stoke Gifford , contains the offices of the Ministry of Defence 's Defence Procurement Agency , plus a shopping park. Filton Park is a suburb of Bristol and lies directly on the city border, sandwiched between the A38 trunk road and Southmead Road. Filton itself lies to the north and east of Filton Park. Monks Park

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480-576: The Hangar do Zeppelin  [ pt ] for the German Zeppelins , and the U.S. government constructed Moffett Field , Mountain View , California and Lakehurst Naval Air Station , Lakehurst, New Jersey . Many warships carry aircraft and will often have hangars for storage and maintenance. Such hangars may be situated adjacent to the flight deck on cruisers , destroyers and frigates or underneath

520-630: The MOD , Viridor , Hewlett-Packard , Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Royal Mail . Filton is also home to the regional blood processing facility, NHS Blood and Transplant Filton. Bristol Cars made hand-built luxury cars in Filton from 1946 until 2011. The company has neither distributors nor dealers and deals directly with customers; they have a showroom and head office in Kensington , London. They claimed to be

560-521: The American FAA proposed legislation of how a hangar can be used on airfields that receive government funding. The definition of allowed activities included final assembly of aircraft. Airship hangars or airship sheds are generally larger than conventional aircraft hangars, particularly in height. Most early airships used hydrogen gas to provide them with sufficient buoyancy for flight, so their hangars had to provide protection from stray sparks to keep

600-546: The Shield Centre (on the site of the former Shield Laundry) and Abbey Wood Retail Park, as well as other shops. To the east of the town there is a small area of woodland known as Splatt's Abbey Wood. Filton has an aerospace connection dating back to the establishment of the Bristol Aeroplane Company . Aerospace companies in Filton include BAE Systems , Airbus , GKN , Rolls-Royce and MBDA , all located around

640-655: The United States were built as part of the coastal defence plan; a total of 17 hangars were built. Hangars at these bases are some of the world's largest freestanding timber structures. Bases with wooden hangars included: the Naval Air Stations at South Weymouth , Massachusetts (1 hangar); Lakehurst, New Jersey (2); Weeksville, North Carolina (1); Glynco, Georgia (2); Richmond, Florida (3); Houma, Louisiana (1); Hitchcock, Texas (1); Tustin (Santa Ana), California (2); Moffett Field, California (2) and Tillamook, Oregon (2). Of

680-570: The aircraft entrance. The bigger the aircraft to be introduced, the more complex a structure is needed. According to the span of the hangar, sizes can be classified thus: XXL hangars are built for the largest aircraft in the world like the Airbus A380 , Boeing 747 and the Antonov 225 , which are the most complex to erect. Hangars are usually regulated by the building codes in the countries and jurisdictions and airports where they reside. In August 2014,

720-509: The alternate rail route from Bristol to London was finished. In 1907 the northern terminus for Bristol Tramways was moved out from Horfield to Filton. Tram production in the tramway sheds commenced in 1908. The manufacture of aeroplanes started in the Bristol Tramway sheds in 1910 and aero-engine production started in 1920. Between the wars, Filton expanded rapidly to become a suburb of Bristol. Initially development (semi-detached housing)

760-406: The city of Bristol to the south. Farming was the principal occupation. However, there was a large factory-like laundry in the village, opposite Filton House, owned by Samuel Shield. The Bristol to South Wales railway line passed through the village. There was a small station near the site of the current Abbey Wood station . A much larger railway station, known as Filton Junction, opened in 1910, after

800-448: The college were also basic training workshops. In 1960 the education authority opened Filton Technical College on the opposite side of Filton Avenue to the BAC college. Later the various colleges merged and eventually became the South Gloucestershire and Stroud College . Sandwiched between roads, factories, railway lines and the aerodrome, Filton expanded little after World War II. However, from

840-598: The farmer's cattle pen. Bleriot was in a race to be the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, and he and set up his headquarters in the unused shed. In Britain, the earliest aircraft hangars were known as aeroplane sheds , and the oldest survivors of these are at Larkhill , Wiltshire. These were built in 1910 for the Bristol School of Flying and are now Grade II* Listed buildings . British aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe built one of

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880-598: The first aeroplane sheds in 1907 at Brooklands , Surrey and full-size replicas of this and the 1908 Roe biplane are on display at Brooklands Museum . As aviation became established in Britain before World War I, standard designs of hangar gradually appeared with military types too such as the Bessonneau hangar and the side-opening aeroplane shed of 1913, both of which were soon adopted by the Royal Flying Corps . Examples of

920-429: The fixed hangar is a portable shelter that can be used for aircraft storage and maintenance. Portable fabric structures can be built up to 215 ft (66 m) wide, 100 ft (30 m) high and any length. They are able to accommodate several aircraft and can be increased in size and even relocated when necessary. Hangars need special structures to be built. The width of the doors have to be large; this includes

960-489: The flight deck with elevators to lift the aircraft on aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships . On some vessels where space is short the hangar and flight deck share the same space, with the hangar stowing away for flight operations. A hangar home is a residence that includes a hangar attached or integrated into the house, where the owner is able to park their privately owned aircraft. Hangar Homes are usually found in residential airparks. Filton Filton

1000-624: The former Filton Aerodrome . The Concorde supersonic airliner was built here in the late 1960s and 1970s; on 26 November 2003 Concorde 216 (G-BOAF) made the final flight of a Concorde, returning to Filton to be kept there permanently as the centrepiece of the Aerospace Bristol museum, which opened in 2017. This museum also houses the Bristol Aero Collection and examples of planes, helicopters, missiles and other engineering projects built in Filton and Bristol. Other employers include

1040-645: The gas from exploding. Hangars that held several airships were at risk from chain-reaction explosions. For this reason, most hangars for hydrogen-based airships were built to house only one or two such craft. During the "Golden Age" of airship travel from 1900, mooring masts and sheds were constructed to build and house airships. The British government built a shed in Karachi for the R101 , the Brazilian government built one in Rio de Janeiro ,

1080-475: The growing number of school-age children in the area. Many of these children were evacuated when World War II started in 1939, but returned later, during the Phoney War . Filton High School, originally a grammar school, but later a comprehensive, started to take pupils in 1960. In 2010 Filton High was demolished and replaced with Abbeywood Community School . In the late 1940s, the main runway of Filton Aerodrome

1120-519: The largest in the world. Hangar 1, Lakehurst, is located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (formerly Naval Air Station Lakehurst), New Jersey. The structure was completed in 1921 and is typical of airship hangar designs of World War I. The site is best known for the Hindenburg disaster , when on May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned while landing. Hangar No.1 at Lakehurst

1160-552: The last wholly British-owned luxury car builder. The company went into administration in March 2011, and was acquired by the research and development firm Kamkorp . The population of the parish at the 2011 Census was 10,607. The Filton built-up area defined by the Office for National Statistics is a large outer suburban area north of Bristol which includes Almondsbury , Patchway , Little Stoke , Stoke Gifford and Bradley Stoke , and had

1200-631: The late 1970s a trading estate slowly developed on the eastern side of the Bristol/South Wales railway line in what is now known as East Filton. During the mid-1970s the A38 trunk road was upgraded to a dual carriageway. Station Road, a country lane in the early part of the 20th century, was also widened to become a dual carriageway and form part of the Avon Ring Road . In 1973, the Rolls-Royce car division

1240-897: The latter survive at Farnborough , Filton and Montrose airfields. During World War I, other standard designs included the RFC General Service Flight Shed and the Admiralty F-Type of 1916, the General Service Shed (featuring the characteristic Belfast-truss roof and built-in various sizes) and the Handley Page aeroplane shed (1918). Sheds built for rigid airships survive at Moffett Field, California ; Akron, Ohio ; Weeksville, North Carolina ; Lakehurst, New Jersey ; Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Brazil; and Cardington, Bedfordshire . Steel rigid airship hangars are some of

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1280-466: The parish. Filton is represented on South Gloucestershire District Council by Cllr Alex Doyle (Lab) and Cllr Adam Monk (Lab). Thousands of mites , farthings and other coins of the Roman emperors, Domitian , Constantine and Constans were found in a bank by some boys in 1880. Many of the coins were in excellent condition. At the dawn of the 20th century, Filton was a small village, still detached from

1320-617: The public funds, though corporate costs associated with artifacts and displays have been partially funded through corporate donations and tourist infrastructure programmes. Continued support ensures a strong future and on site development and expansion of the CBHC. The centre also operates the Sault Ste. Marie Water Aerodrome ( 46°30′13″N 084°19′30″W  /  46.50361°N 84.32500°W  / 46.50361; -84.32500  ( Sault Ste. Marie Water Aerodrome ) ). The museum's focus

1360-404: The seventeen, only seven remain, Moffett Federal Field , (former NAS Moffett Field), California (2); former Tustin, California (former NAS Santa Ana and MCAS Tustin), California (2); Tillamook Air Museum / Tillamook Airport (former NAS Tillamook), Oregon (1) and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst /Naval Support Activity Lakehurst (former NAS Lakehurst), New Jersey (2). A hangar for Cargolifter

1400-463: Was abolished and the area became part of the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire and rejoined the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire. Filton is represented in the House of Commons by Jack Lopresti , Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke . An electoral ward with the same name exists. The area and population are identical to those of

1440-592: Was built at Brand-Briesen Airfield 1,180 ft (360 m) long, 705 ft (215 m) wide and 348 ft (106 m) high and is a free standing steel-dome "barrel-bowl" construction large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side. The company went into insolvency and in June 2003, the facilities were sold off and the airship hangar was converted to a 'tropical paradise'-themed indoor holiday resort called Tropical Islands , which opened in 2004. An alternative to

1480-402: Was concentrated on the western side of the A38 , in an area known as Filton Park. In the 1930s, the area on the eastern side of the A38 started to be developed. Eventually, Filton became part of the Bristol conurbation, although it remained, as it does now, outside the city boundary. During the 1920s and 1930s, two infant/primary schools and one secondary school were built in Filton to accommodate

1520-534: Was greatly extended for the Bristol Brabazon project. Charlton village was demolished and the pre-war Filton bypass was severed. In the early 1960s, a new bypass was constructed, roughly parallel to the old one, and this later became part of the M5 motorway . In the early 1950s the Bristol Aeroplane Company opened a purpose-built technical college to help train their apprentice intake. Attached to

1560-587: Was separated as Rolls-Royce Motors . Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited (the engine division) was privatised in 1987 as Rolls-Royce plc . Later, the Ministry of Defence set up a large office complex, known as Abbey Wood , in the same area. Filton is twinned with: Filton has a temperate maritime climate, with comfortable, mostly dry summers and cold, mostly wet winters. The temperature is usually between at or below freezing (0 °C (32 °F)) on 39.4 days per year and 23.1 °C (73.6 °F), but between 2005 and 2022,

1600-723: Was used to build and store the American USS Shenandoah . The hangar also provided service and storage for the airships USS Los Angeles , Akron , Macon , as well as the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg . The largest hangars ever built include the Goodyear Airdock measuring 1,175x325x211 feet and Hangar One (Mountain View, California) measuring 1,133 ft × 308 ft × 198 ft (345 m × 94 m × 60 m). The Goodyear Airdock ,

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