Building 205 history.What would be known as Building 205 was originally built as Kilby Prison Hospital for tubercular tubercular /tu·ber·cu·lar/ (too-ber´ku-lar) 1. pertaining to or resembling tubercles. 2. tuberculous. tu·ber·cu·lar adj. 1. prisoners in the late 1930s, although it was never used as such. The cost to construct the facility was $158,688.32. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1940, the need for additional flying training led to the establishment of the Army Air Corps Basic Flying School, Municipal Airport, Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital and second most populous city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Montgomery is notable for its historic involvement during the Civil War, for being the first capital of the Confederacy, and for being a primary site in , at the site of Montgomery's Municipal Airport on 27 August 1940. On site were one lone hangar, a commercial airline building, and the unused Kilby Prison Hospital building. Immediately, a tent city The term tent city covers a wide variety of usually temporary housing made of tents. Tent cities may originate spontaneously or be planned. Tents may or may be not comfortable but usually lack plumbing and sanitary facilities which tend to be communal. was raised in front of the hospital building, by then functioning as the headquarters building. During the war years, it also housed temporary bunks at times, two cadet messes, an officers' mess, an operations facility, an instructor facility, and three school facilities. After World War II, Building 205 was utilized by several units or organizations: in the early 1960s the building housed the Deputy for Gunter, 3800th Air Base Wing; on 6 April 1966, Headquarters Fourteenth Air Force The United States Fourteenth Air Force, also 14th Air Force (14 AF), is a Numbered Air Force (NAF) of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). It is a functional echelon dedicated to space systems operations, responsible for missile warning, space surveillance, and range operations for took up residence; and in 1975 the Air Force Logistics Management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet Center (the original name of the Air Force Logistics Management Agency [AFLMA AFLMA Air Force Logistics Management Agency AFLMA Australian Football League Membership Association ]) moved into the building. AFLMA has occupied the building continuously since then. Over the years, a number of quality-of-life improvements were made to Building 205; however, it still had the mark of a building built in another era: 12-foot high ceilings, ceramic floor tile, exposed wiring and steam pipes, and concrete walls. By the 1990s, while the building was structurally sound, the World War II era mechanical and electrical systems were in need of a complete facelift to bring them up to current building codes. The building was renovated in 2004 and reoccupied by the AFLMA in 2005. Funding for the renovation was provided by the Air Staff. |
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