Moton Field Expands

Hangar No. 2 at Moton Field was completed in early 1944 in response to the tremendous increase in the number of cadets training there. Nearly identical to Hangar No. 1, it contained classrooms, a briefing room, a medical office, and space for drying and repacking parachutes. Aviation cadets learned triangulation in a Hangar No. 2 classroom, reflecting one of the basic principles of air navigation used to determine location. The building burned to the ground in 1989, and the National Park Service plans to reconstruct it as a museum dedicated to the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Tuskegee, Alabama · United States