 The Woodner Apartments is DC's largest single-structure apartment building, and was the largest air-conditioned building in the world when it debuted in 1952.Woodner was killed in the crash of his Formula One Shoestring on April 24, 1988; he had only flown the plane a handful of times despite being a licensed pilot for more than twenty years.The wreckage, which was found two miles from the Montgomery County Airpark in Maryland, indicated that the plane went down with a "heavy impact".