"ChrisEllis" wrote in message
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Does anyone have an opinion to how many single engine low wing, high
wing, or twins or any combination would comfortably fit in a 60x80
hangar. The door is 60 feet wide.

At my local airport there is a 60x80 for rent and obviously it would
cost way to much for me to rent by myself. I am looking to share it
with possibly 3 other pilots for a total of 4 planes. I have a Mooney
M20E.

Smaller hangars are not available for years and years.

If anyone has a community hangar and would like to share there opinion
and any advantages and disadvantages please reply.

I've been in a community hangar before. In McAllen (MFE) there was a good
size 3-sided hangar and they would stick 4 to 6 planes in it every which
way. Mine would get shuffled to the back every once in a while and would
have to pull out one or two planes before pulling mine out. The FBO took
care of moving the planes and it would only take a few minutes. A quick
phone call to the FBO before I left home or work and my plane would be
sitting on the ramp ready to go.

I also shared a smaller hangar at an Iowa airport that would hold a Cessna
Cardinal and my Ercoupe. My Ercoupe would fit nicely behind the Cardinal so
I would have to pull out the Cardinal, pull mine out, then put the Cardinal
back each time I wanted to go fly and then do the reverse when I got done
flying. I got into the habit of listening to the comm radio to hear if the
Cardinal was going out to fly; I would then run out to the airport and get
my plane out at the same time so I wouldn't have to move the other plane
myself. One advantage of that hangar was the electric wench door.

Since then, I've had single hangars. I'm now waiting for the new hangars to
be built here at the local airport so I can move my plane closer to home
into one of the older hangars (with electric door!).

-Greg B.