NASA Industrial Plant, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: The site was one of the country's earliest airplane manufacturing plants and has been instrumental in the development of flight technology including military, supersonic, and high altitude flight vehicles, the manufacturing process of these vehicles, missile technology, guidance systems as well as the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. The structures included in this report comprise a fraction of the overall facility and are located in the northeastern region of the site.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N973

Survey number: HAER CA-310

Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1941 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1948-1958 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1996 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1999 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980

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