3D print the Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar
A free, printable model of the double-cantilever hangar at Loring Air Force Base, its long ribbed roof, and the paved aprons, grass and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar
The double-cantilever hangar at Loring Air Force Base, officially Building 8280, is the biggest structure at the former base that became the Loring Commerce Centre. It measures approximately 76 m by 180 m (250 feet by 600 feet), and its appurtenances take up 1.588 ha (3.925 acres). The hangar can hold five B-36 Peacemaker aircraft or six B-52 Stratofortress aircraft. Its main building dates from 1954 and cost $4.6 million.
Among the earliest hangars at the base, which had opened two years before, it let Strategic Air Command crews keep an aircraft in working condition if Soviet behavior ever warranted an attack, and it sheltered them from harsh Maine weather. Its double-cantilever design was among the first of its kind built for that command, answering a demand for roomier, more efficient space than the buildings from World War II that many other bases had inherited.
The foundation is 260 concrete caissons, each 24 inches (610 mm) across, sunk 7.6 m (25 feet) to limestone bedrock. Arched steel trusses reach out 29 m (95 feet) beyond the shop supports at the center, at both ends, which leaves maximum vertical clearance inside. Each of the north and south walls has six doors; fully open, they form an opening 91 m (300 feet) wide that fits a B-36's whole wingspan.
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 | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 10 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Long ribbed roof
- The roof is one broad slab with evenly spaced ribs. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps the ribs crisp, and a larger print size keeps them from blurring together.
- Corner towers and big doors
- Small towers sit at the corners and the long walls carry door lines. Print friendly adapts the thinnest parts; Full detail keeps every line on a large print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever 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 Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever 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 Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever 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 Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever 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 Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar grows with the print: about 6 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.
