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Southern California hangar fire: Air base was a major Hollywood player in 'Star Trek,' 'Pearl Harbor' and more

LOS ANGELES — Film location manager Steve Woroniecki remembered getting lost in the vastness of the north blimp hangar in Tustin. The World War II-era hangar had a way of challenging people's sense of scale — it made a quarry dump truck look like a toy car; it reduced a blimp to a miniature model of itself. This excited Woroniecki and the production team for the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, which ...
A massive fire continues to burn the historic north blimp hangar in Tustin, California, an Orange County landmark that dates back to World War II, on Tuesday morning, Nov. 7, 2023.

LOS ANGELES — Film location manager Steve Woroniecki remembered getting lost in the vastness of the north blimp hangar in Tustin.

The World War II-era hangar had a way of challenging people's sense of scale — it made a quarry dump truck look like a toy car; it reduced a blimp to a miniature model of itself.

This excited Woroniecki and the production team for the 2009 "" reboot, which needed a building large enough to pose as a futuristic hangar in the year 2258 that would house

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