Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field

[teriyakisoz]

An interesting tour for all aviation enthusiast ...

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=5400

[Zee71]

For anyone who hasn't been there, I highly recommend it. The hanger in my opionion is a hidden gem loaded with fantastic aircraft. If you go.........bring your tripod. Also, a good place to shoot 13L arrivals (if you have a long lens).

Here are a few I took a while back:

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Floyd-Bennett-Field-FBF/Boeing/1213322710_ahAvw-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Floyd-Bennett-Field-FBF/Police002FBF11Mar2011/1213283493_R7Ht2-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Floyd-Bennett-Field-FBF/C54001FBF11Mar2011/1213283537_qnmrt-L.jpg

[puckstopper55]

is it open to the public?

[moose135]

Yes it is - Tuesdays (I think) and Saturdays. No admission charge, just walk on in. Friendly volunteers who will talk to you all day if you want. I've been there many times.

[threeholerglory]

when we went there I was able to negotiate opening their P-2 to get interior pictures in exchange for rotating their props. If you have a few balls and some help it's worth a shot!

[moose135]

I didn't even have to ask - one time I was there, and talking with a couple of volunteers about the plane, and they just told me to climb on in. But then, I don't have your freakishly white skin.

[gpalz1]

Great article. Would like to visit this summer and check out the A-4. One of my all time favorites. Last time I was there was back in the late 80's early 90's. At the time, my buddy was in the CG reserves and we had a chance to take a tour and sit inside one of the helos (Dolphin I believe).

[threeholerglory]

I didn't even have to ask - one time I was there, and talking with a couple of volunteers about the plane, and they just told me to climb on in. But then, I don't have your freakishly white skin.

better than being a "Middle-Eastern man [terrorist] pointing a camera at airplanes"


but alas, I am one too. FML.

Oh, and by the way...I have an Indian friend and she tells me she WISHES she had a TAN complexion as nice as mine. So ha!

[Gerard]

Last time I was there was back in the late 80's early 90's. At the time, my buddy was in the CG reserves and we had a chance to take a tour and sit inside one of the helos (Dolphin I believe).

Yup The Dolphin when it was Air Station Brooklyn.
Does anyone remember the BIG BLUE HANGAR that was at Floyd? Along Flatbush just north of the Tower/Visitors Center. They used
to work on the old guys in there back in the 90s. Not sure why it was torn down.

[gonzalu]

Some 360 panoramas from the hangar

http://www.mannyphoto.com/panoramas/newyork/hangarb/index.html