The Hangar on Stonington Island

Building the Hangar on Stonington Island

Header Photo: The Hangar (left foreground) with the nearby Auster, and Trepassey House (centre right) with the Nissan hut (Photo: John Tonkin Ref. JET034)

Kevin Walton amusingly records that he and David Jones had to design the hangar for an aircraft that had a wingspan of forty feet, but their longest planks were only 18 feet. They started to level a site on February 10th and they completed the job on February 18th. It was built out of rough-sawn Pirana pine, which was very hard, and difficult to nail.

The base of the hangar, on about February 11, 1947
(Photo: John Tonkin Ref. JET017)
The hangar under construction on about February 14, 1947
(Photo: John Tonkin Ref. JET025)
The nearly-finished hangar on or about February 16th, 1947 (Photo: John Tonkin Ref. JET024