Watch out for car guys...

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...they may be hitting you up for hangar space. The July 2017 issue of Car and Driver has an article about storing cars in hangars. Here's an excerpt:

You've run out of garage space and cars are stacked three deep in your driveway. Time to get more real estate! Know where there's lots of room, often cheap? Airports. A hangar usually comes with security, heat, and electricity, making it the perfect place for your collection. Hangars near big cities can rent for less than $400 per month. Half that at smaller airports gets you 1000 private square feet for automotive hootenanny.

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Outside the rows of hangars at most airports, you'll see Pipers, Cessnas, and Mooneys tied to anchors in the pavement, kept outside permanently. Sun eats into their paint, and their owners are unable to keep gear or tools nearby. But a tie-down is cheaper than a hangar. If you trust a tie-down lessee, offer to split a hangar. His or her payment won't change, and you can pick up the difference. Or find a hangar tenant who'll trade floor space for help with the bill. Just keep your cars and motorcycles out of the plane's way.
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What they don't say is that most hangars have waiting lists and that most owners frown on anything other than an airplane stored there.
 
Not to mention some airports prohibit storage of anything other than a plane or a plane being built, like my airport.
 
Stuff like that ****es me off. If you want to store your cars, build a shop. I can't build a shop for my plane. I have to keep it at an airport. And when alpha hotels rent hangars to store cars, work equipment, and junk (w/o a plane or even being a pilot), I get stuck on a waiting list when I would use that space for its intended purpose.
 
There are 8 total hangars at my grass strip. 6 are loaded it airplanes. (One has an N3N-3, one has a Cub Cruiser; another has a clipped wing J-3, a beautifully restored Champ, and a Skybolt under construction...) One of the best hangars is used to store porta-potties,I $hlt you not. ****es me off. ;)
 
Got folks that learned a hangar is cheaper and larger than those storage lockers by a long shot. A couple of hangars at my airport are loaded with this crap and it just tweaks me all wrong, especially since I'm #18 on the waitlist for a hangar. (So a 2+ year wait.)
 
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Lachlan said:
There are 8 total hangars at my grass strip. 6 are loaded it airplanes. (One has an N3N-3, one has a Cub Cruiser; another has a clipped wing J-3, a beautifully restored Champ, and a Skybolt under construction...) One of the best hangars is used to store porta-potties,I $hlt you not. ****es me off. ;)
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I know you don't like low wings but calling them porta-potties is kind of harsh.
:D
 
One of my buddies from high school along with his brother inherited his Dad's construction business. Him, his brother, or his father constructed 90% of the hangers at my hometown airport in Colorado. He built a couple huge hangers for himself on land he acquired from the city just for his car collection. Reason being, there would be no FAA interference when it came time to build a new runway which they recently completed. His muscle car collection ranked right up there with Jay Leno, Tim Allen, and many other celebrity collectors. In fact he's done business with most of them at one time or another. The following video shows a small part of his overall collection that Mecum auctioned off last year. If you're an avid car buff you'll know how rare some of his cars were/are. :cool:

 
I remember the local airport in my home town used one hanger to store coffins.

Always be prepared....
 
As a car guy and a plane guy, I have thought of this. I have 3 more cars than I have garage space for and live downtown so have to get creative with parking. And my airport does not have a waitlist so I could rent my immediate next door hangar which is just sitting empty right now. Of course, I would never do this if someone needed he hangar for an actual airplane. In fact, I'm not even doing it anyway because I don't want my cars 15 minutes away from my house. But my point is that I can see both sides as long as no one is being a d!ck.
 
RudyP said:
. . . .as long as no one is being a d!ck.
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But many are when it comes to hangar waiting lists and who gets the next one. Having have gars ful on no-airplanes just makes it more cutthroat.
 
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