AIR PARK FACILITY TAKING WING; FENCE MARKS BEGINNING OF PLANT 42 EXHIBIT OF AEROSPACE PAST.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer A fence is being erected at the site of the Plant 42 Heritage Airpark air·park n. A small airport typically located near a business area or industrial park. , which officials hope will ultimately be a 23-acre exhibit celebrating the installation's aircraft and its workers. Plans call for the park, on the north side of Avenue P between 20th and 25th streets east, to hold 30 to 35 aircraft that were built, modified and flight-tested at Plant 42. Subsidized sub·si·dize tr.v. sub·si·dized, sub·si·diz·ing, sub·si·diz·es 1. To assist or support with a subsidy. 2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. by a $150,000 allocation from the city of Palmdale, the air park also would include a picnic area, landscaping and lighting. An environmental assessment is waiting to be signed, and Air Force and Palmdale officials are working on a five-year lease agreement. ``The Pentagon is working with us and fully supports that effort,'' said Lt. Col. Robert Catlin, commander of Plant 42. Volunteers are refurbishing two aircraft that will be the first displays at the air park - an F-104, currently at Plant 42, and an F-100, now at the former George Air Force Base. Other aircraft are expected to be obtained from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. The 7,000 military and 1,600 civilian employees who work on the base are paid $199 million annually, and the base has an estimated $750 million economic impact on Tucson as a whole. near Tucson, Ariz., which houses old and obsolete aircraft. Aerospace companies are expected to help transport the aircraft, with volunteer organizations doing the refurbishing. Existing monuments to the region's aerospace history include Edwards Air Force Base's flight test museum and the Lancaster Aerospace Walk of Honor The Aerospace Walk of Honor in Lancaster, California, USA, is a continually-growing venue for honoring test pilots who have significantly contributed to aviation and space research and development. for test pilots. The flight-test museum also operates the Blackbird blackbird, common name in North America of a perching bird allied to the bobolink, the meadow lark, the oriole, and the grackle and belonging to the family Icteridae. The European blackbird, Turdus merula, is a thrush. Airpark in Palmdale, an annex for the museum featuring two retired SR-71 Blackbird “SR-71” redirects here. For other uses, see SR-71 (disambiguation). The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. spy planes. |
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