Does anyone recognise this type of hangar from our WWII Empire Air Training Scheme flying school at Ashburton, New Zealand?
View from the back of the hangar which was covered with tarpaper. The roof is corrugated steel but this is more recent as it too was originally plywood covered with tarpaper.
View inside showing the timber trusses, there are four of these, one front, one back and two close together supporting a lifting beam. Intermediate trusses are just planks nailed together.
The trusses are of simple construction.
The doors are in a sad state and have since been removed, the front truss has been damaged by the weight of the doors.
Our intention is to repair this historic hangar to a condition which will extend its life (maybe another 70 years?) and so we can use it as a storage facility for our aviation museum.
I would be interested to know if there are hangars to this design elsewhere and especially information on the style of the original doors.