Hangar One | |
Location | Santa Clara County, near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, California, USA |
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Coordinates | 37°24′46.47″N 122°03′13.91″W / 37.4129083°N 122.0538639°W |
Area | 8 acres (32,000 m2) |
Built | 1933 |
Architect | Dr. Karl Arnstein and Wilbur Watson Associates Architects and Engineers |
Part of | US Naval Air Station Sunnyvale, California, Historic District (ID94000045[1]) |
Designated CP | February 24, 1994 |
Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (32,000 m2; 3.2 ha) at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The massive hangar has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of California's Silicon Valley. It was built in the 1930s as a naval airship hangar for USS Macon and is now part of the NASA Ames Research Center.