Located in an industrial park and adjacent to a ball field complex at the southwestern edge of the city of New Castle, Delaware, the Air Service Inc., Hangar at Bellanca Airfield is an approximately 60' x 180' airplane hangar that is the only surviving piece of aviation history left at the former Bellanca Airfield. Built in c. 1936, the Air Service Inc., Hangar is built predominately of concrete block with brick detailing at door openings and at the locations of the piers that support the wood roof trusses. The modified closed arch roof is supported by a series of three wooden fan trusses. A one story frame addition is attached to the west elevation of the building and runs longer than the full width of the arched section and on the east elevation a one story frame addition runs approximately half the width of the building. On the main hangar section, asbestos shingle siding covers the original weatherboard siding. The windows throughout the hangar are covered with a temporary, protective, rigid board siding. The interior has non-structural partitions constructed to accommodate post-airplane hangar uses. Despite these minor changes the building retains its physical integrity...
The Air Service, Inc. Hangar at Bellanca Airfield, located in the vicinity of the city of New Castle, Delaware, is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places ... for its association with the development of private aviation in Delaware and ... as a rare surviving example of a mid-1930s frame airplane hangar. Built c. 1936 after a fire destroyed the existing Delaware Air Service, Inc. hangar, this building is all that is left that represents the pre-World War II period of aviation in New Castle. Constructed on a formerly 350 acre site composed of the airfield, the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation headquarters, and the Bellanca manufacturing facility, this building and the nominated acreage are the only features that survive to represent this important part of Delaware's history.
The former hanger is being preserved and is being converted into an aviation museum.