Tustin Blimp Hangar Roof Collapse

Department of the navy is sending a structural engineer to investigate the roof collapse and assess the hangar s integrity which was red tagged after the accident.

Tustin blimp hangar roof collapse.

A hangar roof collapsed monday morning in tustin damaging a 35 million experimental airship. Orange county fire officials said there s a giant hole in the roof of one of the huge concrete hangars. One of the hangars is currently open and rented out for events. The former marine corps air station mcas is now a planned community called tustin legacy adjacent to the district shopping center.

Titans of history a historical account of the mcas tustin hangars approved by the department of the navy state office of historic preservation shpo and federal advisory council. 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. 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. Now held up by a tower on either side.

Chief pilot mark robinson flying over the site in a helicopter. See the collapsed roof. 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. Small pieces of wood fell from the hangar.

Aerial view of the tustin blimp hangars in tustin california. Sam gangwer orange county register. 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. In october 2013 part of the roof collapsed damaging the airship prototype.