Air Force plants by name
AKA: Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant
Offutt Field, Nebraska
The plant produced 1,585 B-26 Marauders and 531 B-29 Superfortresses.
In Operation: 1942-1945
Wikipedia
Arsenal for Democracy
The Martin Plant and Women
AKA: Air Force Plant NC
AKA: North American Aviation Plant
AKA: Fairfax Field
Kansas City, OK
The plant was adjacent to Fairfax Field.
In Operation: 1941-1999
Wikipedia
AKA: Tulsa Bomber plant
Tulsa, OK
642 acres - government owned 50 percent. 3.8 million square feet of floor space - government owned 73 percent. Douglas Aircraft Co (later McDonnell Douglas) and North American Aviation (now Rockwell) shared the space.A Quitclaim Deed transferred the property to the City of Tulsa in 1999.
In Operation: 1942-1999
Wikipedia
OK History
Tulsa bomber plant
AKA: Convair/Lockheed Martin
Fort Worth, TX
Government-owned but operated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Superfund site.Originally built B-24 Liberator. Now builds F-16 and F-35 fighters.
In Operation: 1942-9999
Wikipedia
Youtube video
AKA: Tinker Air Force Base
AKA: Midwest Air Depot
Oklahoma City, OK
In Operation: 1942-9999
Wikipedia
AKA: Bell Bomber Plant
Marietta, GA
Government-owned - operated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. 926 acres of which the government owns 82 percent. 7.5 million square feet of which the government owns 78 percent. From 1943-1945, Bell Aircraft Corporation manufactured B-29 bombers.
In Operation: 1943-9999
Wikipedia
AKA: Cleveland Bomber Plant
AKA: Fisher Body Cleveland Plant #2
Cleveland, OH
adjacent to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
In Operation: 1942-1970
Wikipedia
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
AKA: Orchard Place
AKA: Douglas Aircraft Plant
Chicago, Ilinois
Production of aircraft parts by Douglas Corp. The plant built 655 C-54 Skymasters. The assembly buildings covered about 2 million square feet,
In Operation: 1942-1946
Wikipedia
Orchard Place/Douglas Airport
DoD list
AKA: North American Aviation plant
Los Angeles, CA
This plant was on the site of LAX airport.
In Operation: 1942-1953
California military history
North American Aviation Mines Field Site, California
AKA: Northrup Aircraft Plant
Los Angeles, CA
The plant worked on the SNARK Missile ProgramIn 1964, 32.37 acres were conveyed to Northrop Corporation by quitclaim deed.
In Operation: 1948-1958
Wikipedia
California military history
Hawthorne Municipal Airport (Northrop Field, Air Force Plant 10)
Hagerstown, Maryland
Fairchilde Industries; Fairchild Republic
In Operation: 1948-1958
Hagerstown Airport, Maryland
Inventory
Photos
AKA: Fairchild
Farmingdale, New York
This Fairchild plant was at Republic Airport. It produced 9,000 P-47 Thunderbolts during WW2. It produced the F-84 Thunderjet and the swept-wing F-84 Thunderstreak during the Korean War. It produced over 800 F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers during the Vietnam Era.
In Operation: 1948-1995
Republic Airport, New York
AKA: Boeing Military Aircraft Facility
Wichita, KS
Boeing built B-29 bombers here.In 1979, Boeing acquired the property through a quitclaim deed.
In Operation: 1943-1979
The Boeing Company v. The Secretary of the Air Force
AKA: Lockheed
Burbank, California
P-38 LightningWikipedia points their Air Force Plant 14 link to this facility but does not say what was manufactured here.This was the site of the original Lockheed Skunkworks.
Lockheed During World War II: Operation Camouflage
Photo
AKA: McDonnell Douglas Plant
Long Beach, CA
The entire site, 249.34 acres, was quitclaimed back to Douglas Aircraft.
In Operation: 1948-1995
Wikipedia
Historic Posts, etc.
Boeing Co. v. United States
Downey, CA
North American
In Operation: 1948-1995
California military history
AKA: Boeing Plant 2
Seattle, WA
Shuffleton Lab?
In Operation: 1948-1995
Wikipedia
AKA: Newark Air Force Station
Heath, Ohio
Don't know what company ran the plant or what was manufactured.Boeing has a plant there today.Kaiser Aluminum has a plant nearby.
EPA
AKA: Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp
AKA: General Dynamics
San Diego, California
In Operation: 1941-9999
Historic California Posts, etc.
Renton, Washington
The Renton plant built 1,119 B-29 Superfortresses for World War 2.
In Operation: 1942-1963
Boeing History Chronology
AKA: General Motors/Fisher
Detroit, Michigan
produced 4,993 M10 Sherman tank
In Operation: 1942-1943
Fisher Body Company Plant No. 21
Palmdale, California
The marker is a guess for now.
AKA: Detroit Die and Machine Plant
AKA: Fisher Body Plant #23
Detroit, Michigan
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
Palmdale, California
I.E. Pacific
Indianapolis, Indiana
Allison built gas turbine enginesGSA conveyed to General Motors 212.9 acres
In Operation: 1944-1966
Toledo, Ohio
Built J69 jet engine
In Operation: 1942-1955
flightglobal.com
Book
AKA: General Electric Everett Plant
Everett, MA
Produced GE jet enginessignificant environmental cleanup
In Operation: 1941-1980
Wikipedia
Environmental cleanup
Lynn, MA
significant environmental cleanup
In Operation: 1943-1983
Wikipedia
Environmental cleanup
Indianapolis, Indiana
In Operation: 1943-1964
AKA: Willow Run Bomber Plant
Belleville, MI
Ford Motor Company built B-24 Liberator bombers
In Operation: 1941-1945
Wikipedia
Assembly Magazine
cached copy of Assembly Magazine
Williamsport, PA
In Operation: 1943-
Pasadena, California
Washington Park, Illinois
Emerson Electric Company
In Operation: 1943-
AKA: GE Evendale
AKA: GE Cincinnati
AKA: GE Lockland
Reading, Ohio
Curtiss Wright Corp produced aircraft piston engines at this plant during WW2. In 1989, the property was quitclaimed to General Electric.
In Operation: 1948-1989
Global Security: Air Force Plant 36
EEOICPA Covered Facilities: General Electric Company (Ohio)
GE sues government
USGS report
WSJ: Wastelands
SEC Petition Evaluation Report: General Electric Co. (Ohio)
Installation Restoration Program Phase I - Records Search
AKA: Lake Ontario Ordinance Works
AKA: Bell Aerospace Textron
Porter, New York
After WWII, AFP 38 became the Lake Ontario Ordnance Depot.
In Operation: 1941-1946
Global Security
EPA
Installation Restoration Program
Chicago, IL
Aircraft engine manufacturing and testing470 acre site now Ford City Shopping Center
In Operation: 1942-1989
AKA: General Motors?
Buffalo, New York
Cleveland, OH
Steel forging plant
In Operation: 1942-1989
Palmdale, California
Colocated with Palmdale Regional Airport.
In Operation: 1935-9999
Wikipedia
Dreamland
Northrop Grumman in Palmdale, California
Historic California Posts
AKA: Stratford Army Engine Plant
AKA: Sikorsky Aviation Corp
AKA: Avco Lycoming Division
550 South Main St, Stratford, CT
In Operation: 1951-2008
Wikipedia
Former Army plant proposed as destination resort
Tucson, AZ
Raytheon, Superfund site
In Operation: 1951-9999
Wikipedia
Arizona DEQ
1001 Industrial Highway (PA RT 291), Eddystone (Chester), Pennsylvania
In Operation: 1951-1960
ProPublica: Hazardous Sites
Alexandria, Indiana
19.61 acres
In Operation: 1951-1960
Sale of plant
AKA: Alcoa Cleveland Works, Forging Division
Cleveland, Ohio
Purchased by ALCOA in 1981.
In Operation: 1981
50,000 Ton Closed Die Forging Press
The Air Force’s 50,000 Ton Press
Wikimapia
Photo
GSA
Old Steel
AKA: Heath Maintenance Annex of Dayton Depot
AKA: Newark Air Force Base
Heath, Ohio
This location in Ohio is just a guess for now.
Former Newark AFB
AKA: Revere Copper and Brass, Incorporated
Halethorpe Farms Road, Halethorpe, Maryland
Purchased by Kaiser Aluminum in 1981
In Operation: 1951-1981
AKA: A.O. Smith Corporation
AKA: American Machine and Foundry Company
4777 Dewey Avenue, Greece, NY
Used for production of B-52 bulkheads
In Operation: 1946-1959
N.Y. State Environmental
N.Y. State
Chicago, IL
50.38 acres
In Operation: 1952-9999
Link
AKA: Boeing Flight Center
Moses Lake, WA
In Operation: 1942-1962
Article
Underhill, VT
weapons testing range, General Electric Burlington
AKA: Rocketdyne Canoga Avenue Facility
Canoga Park, CA
In 1974, AFP 56 was conveyed to North American Aviation's successor, Rockwell International with a quitclaim deed.
In Operation: 1955-1972
Deeds
Santa Susana, CA
missile engine testing - Rocketdyne, now Boeing still doing testing
In Operation: 1949-1996
Historic Resources Survey
NASA page
Photos
AKA: Remington Rand
Johnson City, NY
Various military hardware
In Operation: 1942-2014
Milwaukee, WI
Ford plant
In Operation: 1942-2014
AKA: Remington Rand
600 Main St, Johnson City, New York
aluminum aircraft propellors
In Operation: 1942-1958
Proposed Plan for Air Force Plant 59
Global Security
AKA: Bridgeport Brass Company Special Metals Extrusion
1450 Beecher St, Adrian, Michigan
This plant was operated to extrude uranium metal which was used in the fabrication of reactor fuel for the Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, plants. The plant used a 5,500 ton extrusion press.The plant was sold to Martin-Marietta in the early 1960s, then to General Motors in 1974.
In Operation: 1050s-1963
JFK Library: Air Force Plant 60
Oak Ridge NL: Radiological Survey of the former Bridgeport...
President Kennedy Knew What Value Was: A History of the Adrian Delphi Plant
3909 Fruitridge Ave, Terre Haute, Indiana
The map marker is approximate, but in the general area.now Wabash Valley Motor & Machine
Middletown, CT
Pratt Whitney div United Aircraft
In Operation: 1949-1996
AKA: Wyman-Gordon Grafton Plant
North Grafton, Massachusetts
Purchased by Wyman-Gordon in 1981.
In Operation: 1981
Wikipedia
GSA
AKA: Airproducts, Inc.
Santa Susana, CA
In Operation: 1949-1996
NASA
Historic California Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
1701 Bluebonnet Parkway, McGregor, TX
Phillips Petroleum Company was the operator
In Operation: 1949-1996
Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (NWIRP) McGregor
Dawsonville, GA
Lockheed
In Operation: 1949-1996
AKA: Olin Mathieson Chemical Co
Modeltown, NY
plant tried to make high-energy rocket fuel from boron
In Operation: 1949-1996
Buffalo News
AKA: General Electric Pittsfield Plant
Pittsfield, MA
General Electric
In Operation: 1949-1996
Wikipedia
EPA
AKA: Aerojet Plant
Rancho Cordova, Sacremento County, CA
Aerojet General Corprocket engines for Gemini, Apollo, Delta, Titan, Polaris, Minuteman, Hawk, Genie, Tartar, Standard Missile and Harpoon.52 acres of land purchased for $2.5 million
In Operation: 1951-1992
Historic California Posts
Settlement for environmental issues
Folsom, CA
production of liquid oxygen and nitrogen
In Operation: 1949-1996
Air Force Plant 71, Folsom
Boron, CA
Supposed to be a Liquid Oxygen Plant.Vacant land with an abandoned airstrip
In Operation: 1956-1972
Historic California Posts, etc.
Cocoa Beach, Brevard County, FL
The marker is approximate
In Operation: 1956-1956
AKA: PRATT AND WHITNEY AIRCRAFT
AKA: Naval Weapons Reserve Area
Palm Beach County, Florida
Florida Health
Seattle, WA
In Operation: 1956-1956
San Pedro, CA
Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company - liquid hydrogenGary Drillind Company purchased the site
In Operation: 1956-1963
Historic California Posts, etc.
AKA: Boeing
Ogden, Utah
Minuteman missiles
Minuteman II and the beginning of Hill AFB’s ICBM support
Photo
Promontory, Utah
Thiokol rocket engine plant
In Operation: 1957-9999
Thiokol announcement
AKA: Air Force Plant PJKS
Littleton, Colorado
Superfund site
In Operation: 1957-1968
EPA
Saltville, Virginia
produced anhydrous hydrazine; operated by Olin Corp
In Operation: 1967-1972
Closing the plant
Magna, Utah
produced Minuteman missile stage 3; transferred to civilian contractors in 1972. now ATK Launch Systems but still on DoD list
In Operation: 1967-9999
AKA: Los Angeles Air Force Station
El Segundo, California
366 Woodward SE Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico
General Electric Aviation took over in 1984.
In Operation: 1967-1984
The Yard: A Glimpse into the Past
New Mexico v. General Elec. Co.
AKA: Curtis-Wright
AKA: McDonnell Douglas
142 James S. McDonnell Blvd, Hazelwood, Missouri
located at Lambert Airport
AKA: Naval Industrial Reserve Aircraft Plant
Columbus, OH
Rockwell aircraft, Superfund site
In Operation: 1941-1997
Ohio State Univ, Air Force PLant 85
Ohio EPA
EPA Superfund Site
Bethpage, New York
Grumman J2F Duck, an amphibious biplaneGrumman F4F Wildcat fightersGrumman G-21 Goose
Long Island City, New York
Brewater Buffalo
Louisville, Kentucky
Built P-40s and C-46s
Wikipedia
Hazelwood, Missouri
Built P-40s and C-46s
Wikipedia
Cheektowaga, New York
Built P-40s and C-46s
Wikipedia
Photo
Columbus, Ohio
Built P-40s and C-46s
Wikipedia
Niagara Falls, New York
Built P-39s
Farmingdale, New York
Trenton, New Jersey
Wikipedia
Photo of Ternstedt Plant, Trenton, NJ
Detroit, Michigan
DETROITURBEX.COM
nailhed.com
Memphis, Tennessee
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
Lansing, Michigan
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
Wyoming, Michigan
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
AKA: MI Tank Arsenal
Grand Blanc, Michigan
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
Flint, Michigan
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
AKA: Fisher Body Plant 21
Detroit, Michigan
The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
Cleveland, Ohio
San Francisco, CA
In Operation: 1942-1999