Market driven right from beginning and strictly focused on lifting and transport of goods, CargoLifter has broadened -up its product range. With 360-meters in length, 210-meters in width and 107-meters in height the hanger was designed to accommodate the planned CargoLifter CL 160, a 260-meter long airship. This new entity owns the patents of former CargoLifter AG and has been continuously creating additional expertise. CargoLifter hangar, located in Brand, Germany (60 kilometres south of Berlin) on a former Soviet military airport, is the largest self-supporting hangar in the world. After reunification of Germany the site was returned to the federal Government and later bought by the company Cargolifter AG. After WWII the Red Army occupied and then expanded the sites facilities. Hit by the downturn of the aviation industry after 9/11, CargoLifter AG had to stop activities during the financial crisis in 2002.Īfter the insolvency of CargoLifter AG, a core team founded CL CargoLifter GmbH & Co. The Hangar is located to the South of Berlin on what was originally the Brand-Briesen Airfield built for the Luftwaffe. In its first year of operation it attracted 975,000 visitors, according to the operators. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Armin. Indoor and outdoor facilities stretching across 100,000m. View Cargo lifter, hangar for air-ship construction, Brand - Berlin - Germany by Armin Linke on artnet. Just 60 kilometres from Berlin, in the popular Spreewald. Access 24 hours, 365 days a year for overnight guests. Tropical Islands has a maximum capacity of 8,200 visitors a day. The Aerium - Inauguration of the CargoLifter Hangar On November, 25th 2000 the hangar becomes. The Tropical Islands Resort is open all year round - including public holidays Overnight guests can use the Tropical World facilities 24 hours a day. The hall belonged to the company Cargolifter until its insolvency in 2002. Faced with significant challenges to transport their heavy and large components to the construction site, a group of global players was urgently looking for an innovative transport solution capable of lifting more than 100 tons and oversized units up to 50 m in length.Įstablished in 1996, CargoLifter AG managed to build the world's largest hangar, design and operate the world's largest balloon and start the production of the largest airship ever. It is housed in a former airship hangar (known as the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world.
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The company provides aircraft services for Heads-of-States and individuals of ultra-high net worth including full interior completions, maintenance, refurbishments, satellite upgrades, live tv installation, surveillance, and defense counter mechanisms.įollow our blog for more interesting stories.The CargoLifter project was initiated by industrial partners in 1994.
This massive hangar holds 6 wide bodies and 4 narrow bodies simultaneously, including a 747-400 if needed. In 2014, it was sold to GDC Technics, a world-renowned completion center known for VVIP aircraft interior completions on Boeing and Airbus wide-body aircraft at an undisclosed price. The hangar was first occupied by American Airlines as a maintenance facility for the airline’s fleet and was considered at the time the largest cantilever hangar in the world. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Alliance Airport, the 840,000-square feet, this hangar was built in 1992 and cost over $90 million dollars to complete. Cargolifter AG was a German company founded in 1996 to offer logistical services through. 1998: The construction of a large hangar for production and operation of the CL160. Exterior view of hangar at the former Brand-Briesen Airfield. They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the GDC Technics hangar is no exception. Cargolifter AG was created on 1 September 1996 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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