The three barrel-vaulted hangars standing in formation at Madison Airport are rare survivors from the rapid build-up of military training facilities in Mississippi before and during World War II. The hangars supported Parks Air College, a civilian aviation training school affiliated with the Army Air Corps. From September 1940 through July 1944, more than 3,000 pilots passed through what was then known as Robins Field. Decommissioned in 1948, the airfield became Madison’s general aviation airport. The corrugated-metal hangars measure 100 × 170 feet and are close to 30 feet high at their crowns. Four 15-foot high doors on cast-iron wheels slide open on the short south sides, and steel casement windows light the interiors. Jackson contractors W. J. McGee and Son and W. G. Wetmore used steel fabricated by the International Derrick and Equipment Company of Columbus, Ohio, to erect the structures.