I see it more like a bar 
, where aviation people would just hang out.
Jujupilote wrote:
I would try to make it a cosy and welcoming social place for the local aviation scene to gather and chat, have BBQ or else …
A mini-club?
If I had a hangar, I would rent a few spots to owners or mechanics who share my idea of aviation.
But, more importantly, I would try to make it a cosy and welcoming social place for the local aviation scene to gather and chat, have BBQ or else …
In the US, and in the “poorer” parts of Europe (including the UK) one can get decent hangarage options. One just can’t do it in the “rich” parts because the land is worth too much, and GA pilots in most countries just want to live off the back of one another, and amazingly this seems true even if they have loads of money themselves
If I had my own hangar I would definitely let my A&P/IA/EASA66 to work freelance in it. Currently all these people are struggling to find places to work.
For me, the dream would be to live on an airpark (i.e. hangar attached to my living space). The only thing is, I quite enjoy apartment living and I don’t aspire to live in a massive house with countless bedrooms (more money for flying that way, too!).
Something similar to this: http://hangarhomes.co.uk
I pay £2640 a year to park outside. I dream of having a hangar, as there are none at my airfield.
The airfield owners say that it may happen someday if they can get planning permission. Cost is likely to be £8800 per year for a Poly Tunnel type hangar with no power or water.
Very nice, thank you for the detailed description.
Our hangar is circled in red.
For years we worked outside in the rain (and the snow sometimes). We finally found a place to build the hangar we wanted. We have natural gas for heat. That, combined with an extremely efficient hot water floor heating system makes it cost less than $160 US per month to heat, even when the outside temperatures are running below 0. The hangar is well insulated and well sealed.
The little part at the rear left is our office that has a full kitchen, refrigerator/freezer, desk, shower, bathroom, etc. That part is air conditioned in the summer.
We have a hangar. 80 feet by 80 feet by 24 feet high. Hot water heated floor that is painted polished light gray. Very large HID lights. Door 70 feet wide with an 18 foot clearance when open. There is a side door at the back that is 22 feet wide by 16 foot clear opening. We used that for remote mounted engine control development. Propellers could be moved in and out on the engine stand. We sometimes keep our RV in the back of the hangar when it isn’t being otherwise used. Ours is the little blue Skylane at the back.
This hangar was our very long term dream and it has worked out as well as we hoped it would. Our taxiway is 80 feet wide, paved. The runway is 5200 feet long, 75 feet wide, lighted, with 4 instrument approaches. We host usually 5 airplanes, sometimes fewer if they are large. We do maintenance work on the airplanes inside our hangar and have moveable workbenches for that purpose.
Bend, Oregon airport KBDN.
I made an offer on a small grass airfield a few years ago – to cut a long story short there was a lot of time-wasting from both the seller and the estate agent and nothing happened. I must admit the plan was to take the planes out of one of the hangars to use it as a warehouse for work [shock horror] and eventually to build a replacement hangar.
Someone I know makes heaters that burn used engine oil which I was planning on getting.
