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Aircraft Building (Dearborn, Michigan)

USA / Michigan / Melvindale / Dearborn, Michigan
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The Aircraft Building was constructed in 1941 to produce Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp R2800 aircraft engines for the B-26 Marauder medium bomber. Designed by Albert Kahn, the two story, 360 ft. by 1,408 ft., 800,000 sq. ft. main building housed 10,000 workers, with engine assembly operations on the ground floor and a machine shop on the second floor. A 270ft by 952 ft addition contained engine testing and dynamometer facilities.

After the war, Ford bought the Aircraft Plant from the U.S. government and used it as a warehouse until 1951 when it was converted into the Dearborn Engine Plant, replacing the obsolete Motor Building.
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Coordinates:   42°18'17"N   83°10'10"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago