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King Airfield Hangar is a historic airplane hangar on Middleboro Avenue in Taunton, Massachusetts near the Taunton Municipal Airport. It is a wood-frame structure, roughly , with a curved corrugated metal roof.〔 The hangar was built in 1919 as part of "King's Field", one of the first private airports in New England, and is its oldest surviving remnant. The airfield was built by Henry King on his dairy farm. King and his family established a flying school with the purchase of a Curtiss Jenny World War I surplus airplane. The Kings also offered sightseeing tours over the Taunton area. In the 1940s and 50s the family acquired a small fleet of aircraft and operated an air taxi service. Local businesses also hangared their planes at the airfield. In 1959, the main runway was paved and improved to 3,400 feet through the Federal Airport Aid Program, and the airfield was renamed Taunton Municipal Airport. A small portion of the original farm where the 1919 hangar is located was left undeveloped.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRHP nomination for King Airfield Hangar )〕 The historic hangar was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.〔 ==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Taunton, Massachusetts 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「King Airfield Hangar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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