- City:
- Bakersfield, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
At the time, it was said to be the largest single-span hangar in California, at 132 feet deep and 200 feet long. Construction involved 50 men, and it was supervised by Cecil Meadows, superintendent at Kern County Airport.
"Under direction of Supt. Cecil Meadows, one of the most important airport projects on the west coast is rapidly progressing with W.P.A. workmen on the job. It is the new reinforced concrete hangar at Kern County Airport which, when completed, will be one of the finest and largest of its type on the Coast."
"Work Sped at Airport," LA Times, 13 August 1936: 11.
Source notes
Project submitted by Douglas Dodd. "Work on Kern Hangar Begun," LA Times, 28 January 1936: 12. "Work Sped at Airport," LA Times, 13 August 1936: 11.Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $140,000.00 |
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Parker Sackewitz
The present day airport is now known as Meadows Field, in honor of Cecil Meadows.