Building 205 history.(AFLMA News Notes: Current information about the agency, its people, and its mission)(Air Force Logistics Management Agency)

What would be known as Building 205 was originally built as Kilby Prison Hospital for tubercular prisoners in the late 1930s, although it was never used as such. The cost to

construct the facility was $158,688.32.

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In 1940, the need for additional flying training led to the establishment of the Army Air Corps Basic Flying School, Municipal Airport, Montgomery, Alabama, at the site of Montgomery's Municipal Airport on 27 August 1940. On site were one lone hangar, a commercial airline building, and the unused Kilby Prison Hospital building.

Immediately, a tent city was raised in front of the hospital building, by then functioning as the headquarters building. During the war years, it also housed temporary bunks at times, two cadet messes, an officers' mess, an operations facility, an instructor facility, and three school facilities.

After World War II, Building 205 was utilized by several units or organizations: in the early ...