A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from Middle French hanghart, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haimgard, from *haim and gard ("yard"). The term, gard, comes from the Old Norse garðr.
An outside view of a hangar in a Royal Air Force base
The Wright Flyer outside the aircraft's makeshift hangar
Carl Richard Nyberg's hangar for his Flugan (fly) from 1908, Täcka udden in Lidingö, Sweden
Six helium-filled blimps stored in one of the two hangars at the former US Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
The Bessonneau hangar was a portable timber and canvas aircraft hangar used by the French Aéronautique Militaire and subsequently adopted by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during the First World War. Many Bessonneau hangars were also subsequently used by the fledgling Royal Air Force (RAF) as temporary structures until more permanent facilities could be built such as at RAF Cleave in Cornwall.
Bessonneau hangars at Vesoul, 1911
French Morane-Saulnier L aircraft with Bessonneau hangars, probably in 1914 or 1915
Bessonneau Hangars behind a lineup of RNAS Nieuports
French Voisin V inside Bessonneau hangar
