Thanks for the input.  I don’t own the hangar yet but there’s some water issues so it’s a challenge to not make the apron so sloped that I can’t get the plane up versus have a wet floor.

 

I had to laugh about the taxing in- here in Minnesota there are large ice ridges that form by the melting snow refreezing at the base of the door.  A guy tried to taxi his 310 out when he couldn’t pull it out with his truck- the ice ridge was about 3-4 inches.  The prop blast from inside the hangar caught the bifold door and flipped it off the rails and it fell on top of the fuselage about bisecting the middle passenger row.  No one else was in the plane fortunately but the damage nearly totaled the twin.  Wasn’t funny at the time but it kind of is now.  The visual of that happening would heave been a you tube moment.

 

Michael Smith

 

 

Michael,

 

I bought a hangar with an apron so steep it took two of us to push the plane up the apron, into the hangar, even with a run at it.  Then I discovered the plane could be taxied in with a little power.  I took a lot of ribbing about that but my wife liked the fact she could get the plane in and out very easily.  Keeps the floor clean too.  Just keep everything loose far, far away from the prop.  (Note, A guy at our airport tried to taxi out of his hangar and the prop sucked in the door rope... here comes the door!  We did not see him again for 6 months, but you would never do that.)

 

Steve Colwell  Legacy