Airmen deployed from Holloman AFB, N.M., finished building the Air Force’s largest deployable hangar at Bagram AB, Afghanistan, last week, reports Capt. Michael Meredith. A nine-person team from Holloman’s 49th Material Maintenance Group worked on the 225-foot by 70-foot hangar from Oct. 22 through Nov. 5. It will house three HH-60 Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopters instead of the normal one aircraft per hangar. MSgt. Samuel Tran, team leader, said, “This is basically two and half shelters grafted together, and this is the largest one like it in the Air Force.”
A prototype aircraft tug being tested out at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. could save MQ-9 Reaper maintainers time and money and cut down on safety risks on the flightline.