Glendale’s airport was briefly the center of Los Angeles’ aviation activity. The 1929 Art Deco Grand Central Air Terminal building served an airfield where Jack Northrop manufactured airplane parts as early as 1927, and where Howard Hughes built a plane in 1935, beginning Hughes Aircraft. World War II aircraft production quickly developed at other airports in the region, and, after the war, activity at the Grand Central Airport, which was used for training during the war, diminished. After officially closing in 1959, its runway was removed, and its structures were reused or redeveloped by the rapidly growing Walt Disney Company. Today Disney owns and occupies much of the airport site, including the old terminal building, located on Grand Central Avenue (which was formerly the runway). At the southern end is the campus for DreamWorks SKG, the production company that was originally going to redevelop the former Hughes aircraft plant in Culver City, but instead moved here—the region’s first airport to be redeveloped by the entertainment industry.