Tustin Blimp Hangar Roof Collapse

A once proud blimp hangar still awe inspiring from a distance today languishes idle and abandoned.

Tustin blimp hangar roof collapse.

The aeroscraft helium filled zeppelin rests in the very back of the blimp hangar in tustin after a 25 foot by 25 foot section of the roof of the hangar collapsed this morning damaging the craft. A hangar roof collapsed monday morning in tustin damaging a 35 million experimental airship. Small pieces of wood fell from the hangar. 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.

Damaged during a windstorm six years ago the tustin icon has become an orphaned albatross. Sam gangwer orange county register. The roof of one of the 17 story structures collapsed last week damaging an experimental airship and raising new questions about the future of the historic buildings that stand as reminders of a long ago era. Orange county fire officials said there s a giant hole in the roof of one of the huge concrete hangars.

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. 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. Navy has finished stabilizing the northern hangar at the former tustin marine base following a partial roof collapse in october 2013.