Port A Port move

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We have lost our ground lease and need to move/disassemble a Port A Port hangar. I do not have drawings or a manual on how this thing comes apart and packs up for a move. I assume all the galv. sheet have to come off and then the frame packs down? Even a picture with the wheels ready to move would be a help. Anyone ever done this? Help.
 
From my experince those things were designed to be hauled to a airport, installed and that was that.

If it's a older on chances are it might not take kindly to being moved again.
 
AggieMike88 said:
Gee, if only there was a massive database of websites that one might be able to search for free....
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Wiping coffee off computer monitor after passing it through nose....

Some guy did this at my airport... plucked his right out of the middle of a row and hauled it to another airport.

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If nothing else, contact the local house mover concern. Even if you don't hire them to move it, hiring them to consult on the how might be of use.
 
I know several people who have moved them to other airports and found the local building inspectors have requirements that the Port a Port does not meet. Would be worth checking before you spend money moving. One fellow doubled his cost by doing all the modifications required.
 
Just make sure you drain all the blue water out of it first.
 
colojo said:
Wiping coffee off computer monitor after passing it through nose....



Some guy did this at my airport... plucked his right out of the middle of a row and hauled it to another airport.



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That's just down the row from ours. It makes the row look all weird now.
 
Oh, and here I thought the thread was about moving to Port A. (Port Aransas, TX) :)
 
denverpilot said:
Nope. I assume whoever it was got tired of paying the monthly ground lease.
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Finding renters is easy at KAPA. I've had my Port-a-Port for 10 years and it has never sat empty, even though my planes are elsewhere. And I'm getting almost double the ground lease in rent.
 
colojo said:
Finding renters is easy at KAPA. I've had my Port-a-Port for 10 years and it has never sat empty, even though my planes are elsewhere. And I'm getting almost double the ground lease in rent.
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Yeah we rented for a long time and watched the prices on them fall and bought one, and managed to time it right. It's worth more today than what we paid for it and now we have no rent, so that helps cash flow. We got the one we're in for essentially a song and paid cash for it, so we're pretty happy.

If the owner of the other one we were renting down the row hadn't gotten greedy as prices were *falling* and upped his rent (probably to pass along the ever increasing ground lease) we probably wouldn't have looked as hard, if at all. He doesn't even live in the State so he may have been out of touch on the pricing thing on the ground locally.

We have some work to do on ours when the spring weather warmup comes with some problems with water flowing through after snowmelt, but we'll get that all happy this year and maybe put up some LED lights. I took the little Honda genset I wasn't using out there and it runs well and handles electrical duties for pre-heat or whatever is needed.
 
Thanks for all the sage advice. Nothing on the internet about how they set up and come apart an owners manual would have been great but I was able to contact someone who had a picture of one of these ready for the road and found another guy with a set of wheels. I think I am good to go. :wink2:
 
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