King Airfield Hangar

	King Airfield Hangar
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Taunton, Massachusetts
Built	1919
Architectural style	No Style Listed
MPS	Taunton MRA
NRHP reference No.	84002141
Added to NRHP	July 5, 1984

King Airfield Hangar is a historic airplane hangar on Middleboro Avenue in Taunton, Massachusetts near the Taunton Municipal Airport. The hangar was built in 1919 as part of "King's Field", one of the first private airports in New England. The airfield was built by Henry King on his 50-acre dairy farm. King and his family established a flying school with the purchase of a Curtiss Jenny WWI surplus airplane. The Kings also offered sightseeing tours over the Taunton area.

In the 1940s and 50s the family acquired a small fleet of aircraft and operated an air taxi service. Local businesses also hangared their planes at the airfield. In 1959, the main runway was paved and improved to 3,400 feet through the Federal Airport Aid Program, and the airfield was renamed Taunton Municipal Airport. A small portion of the original farm where the 1919 hangar is located was left undeveloped.^[2]

The historic hangar was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=TAU.902

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[2] ttp://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=TAU.902

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