POSTCARD N.183 - U.S.A.

Postcrossing Postcard sent on the 5th June; received on the 17th June 2025.

Postcard image: A T6 Texan (?) flies through Blimp Hangar B at what is now  the Blimp Hangar Museum in Tillamook, Oregon

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A very interesting and unusual postcrossing postcard from the United States of America with a classic BW photograph of a stunt which we are not likely to see being carried out in present days. Thank you so much, Liz. Truly appreciated it.

The two Blimp Hangars at Naval Air Station Tilamook  - Hangars A and B - were built and commissioned in 1942.

These would shelter the eight  K-Class airships of Squadron ZP-33, tasked with anti submarine patrols, therein based.

After the Second World War, in 1948, NAS Tilamook was decommissioned but the 192 feet tall (58,5 m),  296 feet (90 m) wide and 1,072 feet (326,7 m)  long with their beautiful wooden trellised construction hangars luckily escaped demolition.

Sadly, Hangar A was destroyed by a fire in 1992, but hangar B today houses the Tilamook Air Museum, or the Blimp Hangar Museum, as it is identified on the back of the postcard.

The photograph that illustrates the postcard was for certain taken after the hangars had been decommissioned, probably in the 1950s. The aircraft flying through the hangar seems to be a North American T-6 Texan, but I might be wrong since the photo is not very clear.

Liz used a round Self-adhesive "Forever Global" stamp illustrated with a beautiful  compass rose, issued on 24JAN2025

The machine applied cancellation hails from Boise, the Capital o the State of Idaho.