Used and un-needed sectionals

mandm

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I’d like to build a sectional wall in my hangar, I’m trying to gather used un-needed sectionals in good shape without markings. I’d be looking for 2 copies of each sectional since there is the front and back. If you have any extras that you do not need, please post a message or PM me. I am in the Chicago area. Thank you in advance.
 
I believe I have 3 or 4 different ones for the southeast that are outdated. I’ll check and let you know.


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mandm said:
I’d like to build a sectional wall in my hangar, I’m trying to gather used un-needed sectionals in good shape without markings. I’d be looking for 2 copies of each sectional since there is the front and back. If you have any extras that you do not need, please post a message or PM me. I am in the Chicago area. Thank you in advance.
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I don’t think paper sectionals will be strong enough. Most people build hangar walls out of galvanized steel.
 
All my expired sectionals turned into to wrapping paper. In fact I used my last one this past Christmas. I was keeping a fairly fresh one around for emergency sake, but I eventually decided that the risk of both tablets failing was small enough I was willing to accept it. Unfortunately this means I no longer have wrapping paper, as taping tablets to all six sides of each package gets prohibitively expensive.

The flight school has a wall covered with an enlarged sectional printed on vinyl. Not sure what something like that would cost, but it's pretty cool.
 
Hmm, just thinking out loud here, but it seems like you might be able to capture Skyvector graphics and have them printed on a large format printer. It probably wouldn't be super cheap, but it might be more reasonable than you think and would be fairly seamless.
 
FAA offers the PDFs free so you could definitely pick your sectional(s), stitch them together, and then get the exact graphic printed, centered as you want it.
 
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I don’t think paper sectionals will be strong enough. Most people build hangar walls out of galvanized steel.
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One side of the wall is insulated and has drywall, I’m thinking about painting it, yet I am initially thinking to move everything off this wall and put the sectionals up on the wall with a wall mounted TV and sofa on the left side. If you can see the table there, there is a VFR US chart laying on top, I don’t remember the size maybe 4’ x 5’ but you can see that size is comical compared to the wall. No idea how it would turn out but was thinking to play with sectionals. We have tons of Chicago sections, and some of the nearby ones but not much of the rest of the country. The whole idea could be a flop too. Time will tell.


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The only old chart I have is the last pre-9/11 New York sectional. Could never bring myself to toss that one.
 
I do have older New Orleans and Jacksonville sectionals if you want them. Just let me know otherwise I’ll probably just put them up somewhere.


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