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36-633: The airport was formerly known as Clinton County Air Force Base . As of 2020, the airport was among the busiest cargo-only airports in the U.S. In 2024, the airport was named one of the top airports in the state of Ohio. The airport opened in 1929 and a small hangar was built in 1930. The landing strip was approved by the Civil Works Administration in 1933. In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Authority took control of Wilmington Airport for use as an emergency landing field. In 1942,

72-523: A major expansion of service. The move was finalized on April 30, 2017, when the last Amazon flight departed. Despite the shift to CVG appearing to be the end of Amazon service at ILN, it was announced in November 2018 that ILN would again open for Amazon so that capacity demands could be met during construction of the company's sort facility at CVG, with operations resuming in June 2019. As of May of 2024, According to

108-471: Is 10,701 by 150 feet (3,262 x 46 m) and 04R/22L is 9,000 by 150 feet (2,743 x 46 m). A 2024 grant allowed the airport to expand its second runway. For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2016, the airport had 1,000 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per month: 90% air taxi and 10% scheduled commercial . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency Hangar A hangar

144-525: 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 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

180-626: Is an airline based in Wilmington, Ohio , United States. It operates worldwide cargo charters and combi charters for the express package industry and freight forwarders, as well as for the United States Department of Defense . It also wet-leases aircraft. Its main base is Wilmington. It is part of the Air Transport Services Group ( Nasdaq :  ATSG ). The airline was established in 1978 and started operations in 1979. It

216-701: 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

252-598: The Boeing 767 freighter conversion program. In the 12 months after ATI's sale by Brinks to CHI, worldwide airline profits fell significantly; however, ATI continued to negate this trend. Delivery of fully modernized and fuel efficient Boeing 767 was on track for June 2008. On November 2, 2007, Cargo Holdings International, the parent company of ATI entered into an agreement to be acquired by Wilmington, OH-based ABX Holdings. The company along with sister company Capital Cargo International Airlines were run as separate companies under

288-522: 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

324-576: 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

360-506: The U.S. Transportation Command . The Air Transport International fleet includes the following aircraft (as of June 7, 2021): Air Transport International formerly operated the following aircraft: In an inspection report, the United States Department of Agriculture stated that in December 2014 Air Transport International had shipped 1,148 crab-eating macaques to Houston from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and failed to provide

396-486: The United States Army Air Forces took over the airport, renaming it Clinton County Army Air Field . With the establishment of an independent U.S. Air Force in 1947, the installation was renamed Clinton County Air Force Base and primarily supported Air Force Reserve flight operations and training under the 302d Troop Carrier Wing (1952-67), which then became the 302d Tactical Airlift Wing and briefly

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432-634: The 302d Special Operations Wing (1967-71). The base was decommissioned as an Air Force installation in 1972 and the Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) began developing the area as the Wilmington Industrial Air Park (WIAP). It also became home to the Great Oaks Joint Vocation School . From 1972 to 1977, charter airline Overseas National Airways had a base at Wilmington Air Park, as part of which

468-585: The Air Transport Services Group umbrella. In March 2013 Capital Cargo merged with Air Transport. In March 2016, Amazon.com announced that it would be using ATI to provide transport services for the Amazon Prime network. The deal under ATI's parent company will result in an increase in aircraft, frequencies, and jobs for the airline. ATI has since become the primary carrier serving Amazon Air . ATI currently also operates military charters for

504-521: 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

540-540: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Wilmington Air Park is the 21st cargo airport in the US by volume, having shipped 631 Million pounds of cargo in the previous 12 months. It remains the top cargo airport in Ohio. The Wilmington Air Park covers an area of 2,000 acres (810 ha) at an elevation of 1,077 feet (328 m) above mean sea level . It has two concrete surfaced runways : 04L/22R

576-670: The Clinton County Port Authority was in conversations with the Ohio Air National Guard for the possible return of a U.S. Air Force presence at the airport, with possible use as a joint civil-military airfield by the Air National Guard to operate model specific Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) After years of dormancy, cargo activity resumed during second half of 2015. Operated under the code name Project Aerosmith, Wilmington-based Air Transport Services Group

612-657: The US Air Force Logair system, and also delivered car parts. ONA shut the base after it disposed of its DC-8 fleet in 1977. The assets were sold to an independent maintenance organization called Ohio Air Center, which took over in November. In 1977, the Southern State Community College opened, using old barracks buildings as classrooms. In 1980, Midwest Air Charter was acquired by Airborne Freight Corporation, resulting in Airborne Express , which became

648-655: 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

684-570: 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,

720-498: The airline also controlled the airfield. ONA moved functionality to Wilmington from a prior base in Norfolk, Virginia . Employment peaked at 140 in early 1976. Among other duties, the base performed the complete interior reconfigurations, such as of several DC-8s purchased from Eastern Air Lines , moving galleys and lavatories to accommodate high density seating. The base also handled dispatch of ONA's domestic cargo fleet, which operated for

756-485: The airport, including its two runways, control tower, buildings and cargo storage facilities to the Clinton County Port Authority. The donation became effective on June 2, 2010. While no concrete plans were set, the port authority plans to work with local and state officials on redeveloping the property. A comprehensive Redevelopment Study for the Wilmington Air Park was completed in December 2011. In January 2012,

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792-598: 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

828-429: 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

864-534: 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. Air Transport International Air Transport International, Inc.

900-645: 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 ,

936-519: 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

972-491: The largest tenant at WIAP. In 2003, as part of the merger of DHL and Airborne, DHL kept Airborne's ground operations and spun off its air operations as ABX Air . The facility was a major sorting center for package delivery service DHL Express between 2005 and the sorting center's closing in July 2009, following then Deutsche Post -owned DHL's cessation of US domestic delivery services. On January 19, 2010, DHL agreed to turn over

1008-897: 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

1044-518: The previous period the year before. In March 2016, Amazon announced leases for 20 767s with its Wilmington operations to be supported by ATSG and its subsidiaries including Air Transport International , which served as Amazon's primary carrier. In this announcement, Amazon received options to purchase up to 19.9 percent of ATSG stock, exercisable over a five-year period. In January 2017 Amazon announced it would shift flight operations to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) alongside

1080-404: 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

1116-521: 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 the farmer's cattle pen. Bleriot was in a race to be the first man to cross

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1152-586: 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 the Wright Flyer in Ohio , the brothers returned to Kill Devil Hills only to find their hangar damaged. They repaired

1188-545: 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

1224-505: Was formed as US Airways and later known as Interstate Airlines . The current name was adopted in 1988. On October 1, 1994 International Cargo Express was merged into Air Transport International, which was itself acquired by the Brink's Company in February 1998. ATI was sold in 2006 to Cargo Holdings International (CHI). It has 495 employees. Cargo Aircraft Management was the lead customer for

1260-517: Was performing a trial run for a potential Amazon.com air cargo operation, the future Amazon Air . In December 2015, Amazon announced that frustration with third-party carriers had led to them investigating their own cargo operation to be flown potentially by ATSG, Atlas Air , or Kalitta Air . As part of a trial, five ATSG Boeing 767s were being operated from Wilmington to airports near Amazon distribution centers, with 219 flights operated between November 1 and December 17, 2015, in contrast to seven in

1296-723: 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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