Aircraft Building (Dearborn, Michigan)
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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.
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
- Axle Plant 0.3 km
- Pressed Steel Building 0.4 km
- Site of Ford Dearborn Car Assembly Plant 0.8 km
- Foundry 1.1 km
- Desoto 3.7 km
- former Chrysler Universal Division 4 km
- American Blower 5.4 km
- Wayne County Community College 6.4 km
- Massey Ferguson - Transmission & Axle Plant 6.9 km
- Massey Ferguson - Detroit Tractor Plant 10 km
- Ford Dearborn Engine and Fuel Tank 0.1 km
- Ford Dearborn Stamping Plant 0.3 km
- Ford River Rouge Complex 0.6 km
- AK Steel - Dearborn Works 1 km
- Rotunda Fields 1.1 km
- Butler Yard 1.1 km
- DTE Energy Co. - River Rouge Station 1.4 km
- Fairlane Grounds 1.7 km
- Fairlane East Apartments 1.7 km
- Fairlane Business Park 2.6 km