N of Lakehurst on CR 547, Manchester Township, New Jersey. County/parish: Ocean.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 23, 1968. NRIS 68000031.
1 contributing building.
Hangar No. 1 is an airship hangar located at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. It was the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing. Built in 1921, it is one of the oldest surviving structures associated with that period's development of lighter-than-air flight. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968.
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