Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Letters from Our Customers - XII


We often receive letters from our customers telling us about their experience with our company, and we greatly appreciate their feedback and love to hear the stories of their buildings.

Below is a letter that we recently received from a couple who was very pleased with their purchase from SteelMaster.

THE ROOKERY - SteelMaster Quonset Hut

Our hangar is built on a pad where WWII Quonset Huts housed Army Air Corp aircraft at John Rodgers Field, which was the first airfield in Hawaii, now also called Kalaeloa Airfield, which is 10 miles from Honolulu International.

Rudy retired at 37 as an ARMY helicopter commander, so the hangar is reminiscent of his Korean experience, although the airfield is now co-joined with Barber’s Point Coast Air Station. The hangar is nested within the Outdoor Naval Air Museum, with numerous army vehicles surrounding it, so the SteelMaster building may be new, but it is nostalgic, none the less. In addition, there is a Viet Nam era Huey UH1 Helicopter that Rudy also flew.

The Quonset is called THE ROOKERY (an aviary for raptors) because it houses RAPTOR TANGO (our experimental aircraft) that we both fly (we also love to tango, hence the name).

We moved out of the Kalaeloa two story WWII hangar (cathedral like), which was an executive military hangar and used for Army Chinooks, now home to many experimental aircraft builders. Since they are creative builders, they were constantly examining the construction of our hangar and consensus is “It really looks great….didn’t think it would go up as quick.” There are two other competitor steel buildings there, but the consensus is the SteelMaster building is top on their list. We have a louver on each end, and the building remains comfortably cool all day in Hawaii. . . . a great design and is completely water proof!


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