Old Hughes Aircraft Plant and Runway (Westchester area now called Playa Vista) (Los Angeles, California) | place with historical importance, neighbourhood

USA / California / Culver City / Los Angeles, California
 place with historical importance, neighbourhood, historical layer / disappeared object
Original Hughes Aircraft location. Although any number of publications cite this location as being in Culver City, it truely has always been part of Westchester, CA. Howard Hughes' "Spuce Goose" was built at the plant here. Most of the Hughes plant and airfield has been redeveloped into the master planned neighborhood now known as Playa Vista, CA.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airport_(California)
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Coordinates:   33°58'41"N   118°24'39"W

Comments

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airport
  • I remember the Hughes Aircraft facility (or as we used to call it, "Huge Aircrash"), located just below the mesa upon which Loyola-Marymount College is built, and literally inches East of Lincoln Boulevard. As you drove North on Lincoln from where it crossed Manchester Boulevard, Lincoln went down the hill from the top of the mesa to near sea level at Jefferson Boulevard. All the way down (and up) that hill, there were signs posted along Lincoln that read "Beware of Low-Flying Aircraft". I never saw the aircraft, but I often saw the signs.
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