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Show Landing Gear Work For Hill Hill Air Force Base has approved the construction of a $6.98 million aircraft landing gear overhaul facility. SEN. E. J. "Jake" Garn, R-Utah, announced Thursday that the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded the bid on the project to the Santa Fe Engineering Co. of Sacramento, Calif. A one-story structure that will cover some 285,000 square feet of floor space, the new facility will house 700 employees and will be located near the south gate of the air base. THE NEW overhaul facility will consolidate a number of related functions now carried on in different buildings. The structure will bring together a machine shop, a foundry, a welding shop, a "heat-treat" function and the aircraft strut overhaul facility that made the news three weeks ago when 12 people were overcome by solvent sol-vent fumes. PART OF the construction will be an adjacent base cafeteria connected to the overhaul facility by a breezeway. It is expected to get under construction sometime in May and is due for completion in November of 1976. HILL AFB has the worldwide world-wide management responsibility respon-sibility for all Air Force landing gear and landing gear components, mnm |