"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:gOKqj.20266$9j6.9228@attbi_s22...
I remember you talking about this before. Have you contacted any of the
historic preservation groups that aren't local?

Yep. We've had people from all over the country come look at the hangar.

They've all decided it's just too danged big to move across the country.
Locally, no one cares -- not even our airport commissioners.

It's criminal, but it's pretty much a done deal.

What really sucks is that they're using a federal grant to tear it down --
and applying for a new federal grant to build a new hangar of equal size!
If they wanted to move the old hangar on the airport, it can be done for
as little as $30K (not counting site prep and restoration costs, which
could, admittedly, run several hundred thousand dollars) and they'd have a
perfectly good -- and historic -- hangar.

Apparently grants are available for new hangar construction, but not old
hangar restoration.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
I am not ready to assume much of anything. A lot of federal grants are
available for historic buildings of nearly all types and nearly all
purposes; but it comes out of another "pocket" in the federal
bureaucracy--other than the airport improvement fund.

Peter