TIL about a hidden hangar at PDX that's holding vintage airframes from the 60s

I was doing a sheet metal repair job at Portland International last month and one of the senior mechanics mentioned a spot off the north ramp. Turns out there's this old hangar tucked behind the cargo area that has like 4 or 5 planes from the 60s and 70s just sitting in there. They're not even gutted or nothing, just covered in dust. I asked who owns them and nobody really knew. Has anyone else stumbled across weird storage like this at their airport?

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victor2192d ago

DUDE that is SO cool. I found something similar once at a small airport in Oregon, it was like a time capsule from the 1970s with old Cessnas and a couple of Pipers just sitting under tarps. Nobody could tell me who they belonged to either, it drove me CRAZY trying to find out the story.

terry_bailey352d ago

Under tarps?" That's wild, even the tarps are probably 50 years old.