Niagara Falls in World War II (Military) by Kratts Michelle Ann

Author:Kratts, Michelle Ann [Kratts, Michelle Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Larry Bell. Courtesy Niagara Aerospace Museum and Archives .

THE NIAGARA FALLS PLANT

Operations officially began at the Niagara Falls site of the Bell Aircraft Corporation on May 19, 1941. The $1,250,000 plant was first agreed upon at a Niagara Falls City Council meeting held on September 27, 1940, in which the contract was drawn up allowing Bell to utilize the Niagara Falls Municipal Airport. By August 1941, the United States government had approved an $8,456,175 project that would expand the factory from 240,000 to 950,000 square feet. It would include more office space, an engineering building, a hangar, an employment office, a shipping building and other space necessary for the fabrication of the Bell P-39 Airacobra parts. Niagara Falls would become one of the primary production sites for the P-39 Airacobra, as well as the P-63 Kingcobra.

This sixty-three-acre site adjacent to the Niagara Falls airport included a provision for 240,000 square feet of additional floor space. The original structure completed in 1941 measured 600 feet by 400 feet and was divided into three bays. The six power-driven assembly lines were located in the center bay, which was 200 feet wide, with columns 100 feet apart for 400 feet of its length. The north and south bays were used for fabrication of subassemblies not completed at the Buffalo location.

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