Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station
Author: Freericks
Date: 10-22-2011 - 18:00
Douglas McDonnell Wrote:
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> By the end of WWII, Douglas had facilities at
> Santa Monica, El Segundo, Long Beach, and
> Torrance, California. These were all aircraft
> plants with the Torrance plant not having an air
> strip making mainly subassemblies. If they made
> munitions, they were probably armed with
> explosives at an arsinal.
>
> Santa Monica priced the original plant out of
> Clover Field. The Northrop Grumman now occupies
> the El Segundo plant(which before that was an
> early Northrop plant before he moved to his first
> indepenantly owned plant in Hawthorne). Now
> Boeing, Long Beach has shrunk with the only(maybe
> last) program there being C-17 production.
> Torrance closed and is now a mix of retail and
> distribution.
Priced out? My understanding has always been that the planes Douglas was building had become too large for the Clover Field (today's Santa Monica Airport) runway.
I don't think it can handle a DC9.