Edited sentence: Among the interesting artifacts in the Plant 42 "graveyard" are the original Shuttle to 747 Crane, a C-15, the forerunner to the C17, as well as the legacy programs continuing to attempt to survive.LAWA can expand Palmdale Airport and the contractors actually benefit financially from the Government running the facility.The contract administration is actually done out of Wright Patterson Air Force Base.Their are exactly 8 Governement employees actively managing Plant 42.This mixed use facility has a questionable life span in it's current configuration