 However the plant's hangars at Hughes Airport, location of present-day Playa Vista in the Westside of Los Angeles, California, were primarily used as a branch plant for the construction of other companies' designs.At the start of the war Hughes Aircraft had only four full-time employees—by the end the number was 80,000.During the war, the company was awarded contracts to build B-25 struts, centrifugal cannons, and machine gun feed chutes.