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Title: Lear opens new research lab
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The hangar, located at 3021 Airport Avenue housed DC3s in the 1960s and Howard Hughes planes in the 1970s. Named The Barker Hangar, it is currently used as a venue for corporate and private events.
Photograph caption dated September 4, 1956 reads "New research and development laboratory of Lear, Inc., opened today at Santa Monica Municipal Airport. Building houses west coast engineering activities of company's Grand Rapids, Mich., Division. More than 100 engineering specialists will develop instruments and equipment for airplanes and missles (sic) with aid of elaborate computing and test equipment."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00141635
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d050_f16_i23
CARL0005733289
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/70462
Subject: Lear Jet Corporation
Santa Monica Municipal Airport
Hangars--California--Santa Monica
Airports--California--Santa Monica
Automobiles--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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