3D print the Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar
A free, printable model of the Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar and the open airfield ground and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar
Known also as the FBO Hangar and the Gulfport Municipal Airport Terminal, the Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar dates from 1944-45, when it was built to train crews for combat flying on the B-29 Superfortress. In 2011 it gained a place on the National Register of Historic Places, and it became a Mississippi Landmark in 2012, and it is in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Gulfport Army Air Field was built in 1942 as a training facility for heavy bomber units, such as the B-17. The War Department expanded the field in 1944 and started this hangar, sized for the larger B-29. The hangar is concrete and steel, with a large vaulted roof and one-story lean-to additions along its east and west sides. Its length is about 200 feet (61 m), running north to south, and its width 80 feet (24 m).
Two-inch gypsum planks cover the roof, sealed with bitumen, and doors of sliding wood sheathed in sheet metal give access. In 1949 the City of Gulfport received the field after the war, and the western lean-to served from about 1947 to 1963 as the airport's passenger terminal. Hurricane Katrina heavily damaged the hangar in August 2005; restoration ran from 2015 to May 2016, and on May 26, 2016 the hangar was transferred to the Mississippi National Guard.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 5 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 6 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 8 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A vaulted roof with lean-tos
- The curved roof is flanked by low lean-to sides along its length. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps the curve smooth, and a larger print keeps the planking lines.
- Small end details
- Small annexes and corner posts sit at the ends. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar grows with the print: about 5 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
