3D print Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base
A free, printable model of Hangar 9, a long hangar with a broad curved roof and crossed bracing on its ends, on open grass beside roads, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base
Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas, the former Brooks Air Force Base, is home to Hangar 9, a historic aircraft hangar from 1918. It ranks as the oldest aircraft storage and repair facility of the U.S. Air Force. Besides the ASUW Shellhouse, no other hangar from World War I survives. It received National Historic Landmark designation in 1976, and it has been restored as an events venue.
The hangar sits on the northern corner formed by Inner Circle Road and Challenger Drive. The building is a wood frame of two stories under a wide gambrel roof, which massive wooden trusses hold up. Vertical board siding covers the exterior, and windows dot the long sides. Each of its north and south facades has four 4.9 m (16 ft) rail-mounted sliding doors, through which aircraft originally moved in and out. Inside, it is essentially unfinished, with the wall studs and roof trusses left exposed.
It was one of sixteen similar wooden buildings put up at Brooks Field in early 1918, and by the 1960s it was the only one left. When the Air Force proposed tearing it down, the Bexar County Historical Society received permission to restore it. In 1968 it was dedicated under the name Edward H. White II Aviation Museum, and the museum closed in 2011 along with the base. The hangar was later restored as an events venue for weddings and corporate events, a step in redeveloping the base.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 160 mm default | 3 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 3 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 4 mm | 1:2,344 |
-
North
-
East
-
South
-
West
- Crossed bracing on the ends
- Both end walls show a lattice of crossed bracing. Print friendly adapts this fine lattice to the print scale; Full detail keeps it, which suits a larger print.
- Rows of small windows and doors
- Many small windows and door panels run along the long sides. A bigger print size keeps them readable, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base 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. Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base 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
Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base 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 Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base 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. Hangar 9, Brooks Air Force Base grows with the print: about 3 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.
