Angie:

I don't know if BVY has accepted FAA grant money (AIP), but these are some things to watch if they have:

1.  Talk with the Airport Manager.  They should know all the nuances about clear space, proper entrances to Airport Operations Areas, taxiway size and weight limitations, etc.

2.  Make sure you understand the reversion clauses that are included in these types of leases.

3.  If possible, check the security plan for the airport and try to keep your hangar out of the Airport Op Area (use fencing or siting) in order to have access to it without having to be badged.  Gain a good understanding (or get some help)of the security plan so that you can communicate that to your builder.

4.  Once you have a binding site plan and drawings, present it to the airport and if they approve, it will go to the FAA for their blessing.  After that, it goes like any other project.

5.  Ask the airport for a "feasibility study lease" during construction which is usually at a reduced amount than the standard lease rate.  In the non-FAA world, these are called options.  For less than logical reasons, the FAA goes ballistic with that terminology.

6.  Your aircraft access will need to be from your apron to a taxiway (FAA rules). Tomas Holbrook
Board Member
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From: "Angier M. Ames" <N4ZQ@comcast.net> Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> Subject: Hangar construction Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:20:33 -0400 To: lml@lancaironline.net  

This is slightly off topic but I'd like to call upon the wealth of knowledge to be found here in our pilot community.
Yet again, I am pursuing a potential opportunity to lease some land at Beverly Airport (BVY) and put up a hangar at the northwest end of 16. Access to Bravo taxiway would be via the run-up area for 16. So I'd like to ask if anybody here knows of an example at another airport where a hangar ramp is connected via maintenance road or taxi lane, etc., and dumps out directly onto a run-up area.

Please feel free to pass along my plea and email address to other pilot groups or knowledgeable FAA types.

Thanks,

Angier Ames
N4ZQ