airplane hangars

"EDR" wrote in message
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In article , geo
wrote:

http://monolithicdome.com/gallery/co...s03/index.html
Monolithic Dome Airplane Hangars

Pffft!
We built our hangar from $20 plans.
No door, total cost was a little less than $3000.
This includes the crushed limestone apron and hangar floor.

You can spend less than that on a basic version just using rebar, concrete &
the airform and it would be much stronger. Or you can go whole hog with the
insulated version with electronic sliding door, etc. It's a very flexible
system.

FULL SUPPORT.. They even repaid me for the materials to run electric and
water to it !
The way they look at it is :
1: The is a waiting list of about 10 people for their open air hangars.
2: I probably will not take it with me, sell it to either the airport or
someoen else if I move
3: Makes the airport look better.. More planes and I did all the
landscaping and tree clearing so they get a concete tiedown if I do move !
It's called a "portable" hangar so no building permit needed.
Bill
Charlotte NC
Sundowner N9230S

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:aQpjb.783354$Ho3.210333@sccrnsc03...
My partner and I pay $45/mo for our "tie down space" and on it we placed
a
concrete pad plus a COVERIT hangar.
Awesome.

Wow -- that's BIG. How did the airport feel about you constructing a
hangar
like this on your tie-down space?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Bill wrote:
FULL SUPPORT.. They even repaid me for the materials to run electric and
water to it !
The way they look at it is :
1: The is a waiting list of about 10 people for their open air hangars.
2: I probably will not take it with me, sell it to either the airport or
someoen else if I move
3: Makes the airport look better.. More planes and I did all the
landscaping and tree clearing so they get a concete tiedown if I do move !
It's called a "portable" hangar so no building permit needed.
Bill
Charlotte NC
Sundowner N9230S

How long does the cover last before UV eats it up?
What is the wind loading like?
How well is it anchored?

geo wrote:
You can spend less than that on a basic version just using rebar, concrete &
the airform and it would be much stronger. Or you can go whole hog with the
insulated version with electronic sliding door, etc. It's a very flexible
system.

Foam concrete (or concrete foam)?
Come to think of it, one could use the construction methods used by
college Civil Engineering departments to fabricate concrete canoes and
entrained air to create a lightweight structure.
The airform would provide the support for the couple layers, then spray
on the successive layers.
That would be an interesting college challenge problem.
Materials could be donated, the military would provide research grants.
Forget the college challenge, I'll just apply for the grant!

Can I ask how much that cost? Just the bit on top, not the whole
deal. I would like to put one of these things where my plane is
parked.

Paul

"Bill" wrote in message
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My partner and I pay $45/mo for our "tie down space" and on it we placed a
concrete pad plus a COVERIT hangar.

The Cover-it hangars are nice but........ Here in MD we lost around 8
or 9 to the big snow storm in Feb. We received about 24" to 28" of
snow which colapsed several hangars, split the cloth or did some other
type of damage. From what was left of those hurricane Isabelle
finished them off. I have the ugly pictures if you're interested.
Unfortunately we lost several planes that were in those hangars.

Now having said that, I own one myself and it survived all of this
just fine. I have the oldest on the field (around '96 not sure, I
bought it used) and it's still on it's original cover. The hangar next
to me is the newest Cover-it on the field and it also made it through
just fine.

I think what saved ours and a couple others is the fact that we have
ours mounted on concrete slabs. I used Red Hat concrete anchor bolts
on all of the legs of the hangar. My hangar was originally on grass
when I bought it and I poured a slab in April of '02 and moved the
hangar to the slab, a job in itself!

My hangar is 35' wide and 25' deep and my neighbors' is 45' wide and
35' deep. I do have a couple of pin holes in the cover here and there
but they do not cause a problem so far. The only trouble I'm having is
with the zippers which are starting to wear out. I hope to get at
least a couple more years out of the cover.

Mark

Cherokee 140 in the hangar
Zenith 601XL in progress in the garage

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:55:28 GMT, john smith wrote:

Bill wrote:
FULL SUPPORT.. They even repaid me for the materials to run electric and
water to it !
The way they look at it is :
1: The is a waiting list of about 10 people for their open air hangars.
2: I probably will not take it with me, sell it to either the airport or
someoen else if I move
3: Makes the airport look better.. More planes and I did all the
landscaping and tree clearing so they get a concete tiedown if I do move !
It's called a "portable" hangar so no building permit needed.
Bill
Charlotte NC
Sundowner N9230S

How long does the cover last before UV eats it up?
What is the wind loading like?
How well is it anchored?

Bill wrote:

My partner and I pay $45/mo for our "tie down space" and on it we placed a
concrete pad plus a COVERIT hangar.

I had plans to do something like that when I bought my Maule. Unfortunately,
the new airport owner said he "didn't want a tent city out there" and canned the
idea. In the meantime, the ultralight people started setting up all sorts of
homemade covers 100 yards away from me.

A few years later, when I was getting ready to move the plane to Old Bridge,
he came around and said he'd changed his mind. I could set up my hangar. By that
time, the paint had been gone from the flaps for years, and the rest of the
plane wasn't looking too good either.

I just thanked him and hurried up the move.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

If thats' Old Bridge, NJ, I used to live up that way and got my ticket
there...

Red


"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Bill wrote:

My partner and I pay $45/mo for our "tie down space" and on it we placed
a
concrete pad plus a COVERIT hangar.

I had plans to do something like that when I bought my Maule.
Unfortunately,
the new airport owner said he "didn't want a tent city out there" and
canned the
idea. In the meantime, the ultralight people started setting up all sorts
of
homemade covers 100 yards away from me.

A few years later, when I was getting ready to move the plane to Old
Bridge,
he came around and said he'd changed his mind. I could set up my hangar.
By that
time, the paint had been gone from the flaps for years, and the rest of
the
plane wasn't looking too good either.

I just thanked him and hurried up the move.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too
much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

I have been thinking of building a Cover-It hanger by utilizing a 10' x 20'
+/- domed style car garage to cover the tail and empennage up to the wings
and then using 2 sections of their lattice arch 10' +/- attached in front to
cover the wings forward. This should cost significantly less than a full
lattice hanger and much easier to move. What do you guys think?

red12049 wrote:

If thats' Old Bridge, NJ, I used to live up that way and got my ticket
there...

Yep, that's where I am now. They've added hangars recently, with more under
construction. The maintenance shop is gone, and the place is pretty full since
Marlboro closed. Two training schools there, though.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.