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From: "J. N. Cameron" <toucan@The-I.net>
To: "Lancair List" <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: FAA reg's re hangars
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:58:52 -0600
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There is, in fact, an obscure part of the FAR's that deals with hangars
located on airports, and we had to go through a full-dress FAA review when
we built hangars on Mustang Beach Airport (2R8) a couple of years ago.
There is a formula that uses distance from any runway or taxiway to figure
maximum height -- the idea is that the closer you are, the lower your roof
peak has to be.  They also require a certain type of red light at either end
of the roof peak.  These lights must be a special government design, as they
cost a ridiculous amount and burn out almost immediately.

The lease-back setup is pretty common, i.e., you build the hangar at your
expense, get maybe a 25-year lease from the City or whoever owns the aiport,
then at the end of the lease they own it.  If rents are reasonable, it
probably makes sense to just rent, but in cases like Austin, TX, where
pilots got the big shaft in the Mueller closure and move to Bergstrom, rents
are running $400 to $600 per month!

I've gone through the hangar-building process twice now, the first with a
steel building, the second with frame construction.  We have quite a bit of
added expense here to meet a minimum 120mph wind load requirement
(everything here on Mustang Island is hurricane bait), but if I have to do
it a third time, I'll pick the steel building every time.  If your concrete
work is good, the building can be up and running in one week flat.  Several
companies like Erect-A-Tube make nice bifold doors that are about a 2-hour
job to hang (you need a crane and a welder).  You can probably figure about
$25K to $30K for a single, rectangular hangar including concrete, and maybe
$22K to $25K per unit for T-hangars.  Add on insurance, taxes, property
costs, etc., and renting might look good again.  The usual problem is that
there aren't any rentals available.


Jim Cameron  (Second ES in transit from Redmond)


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