Hangar & PortAPort Ground Rent

At HTH, Hawthorne, NV., a personally owned 1500 sq. ft. hangar is
640.00 a year. Town pop=3,800. 6000 ft. runway, two cross wind runways.
380 vfr days a year.

Shell Lake WI (SSQ) ground lease rate is 12 cents per sq ft per year
based on the footprint area of your hangar. You have to arrange your
own hangar construction, paved taxiway access, utilities(s), and mow
your grass. The terminal building is about 500 ft away, the town is a
mile away, and the lake is a block away.

Paradise - especially compared to what some of you are paying.

at KPVD: $250/mo for an overcrowded, condemned group hangar, no heat,
birds, and only the FBO can pull the plane out or put it back...FBO is
only there 8-5 daily, so if flying early or late the plane sits outside
overnight, and you have to know before 4:30 that you are going to go.
The $250/mo is a good price for the northeast. State will not allow
private hangars, and has no plans to put up any new hangars.

Ray Andraka wrote:
The $250/mo is a good price for the northeast.

In my experience, that's a true statement.

Couldn't you find an easier place to deal with at one of the several
airports nearby?

B A R R Y wrote:
Ray Andraka wrote:

The $250/mo is a good price for the northeast.


In my experience, that's a true statement.

Couldn't you find an easier place to deal with at one of the several
airports nearby?

Not if I want to be in a hangar. OQU is closer, but has no available
hangar space. They have some grandfathered tenant built hangars, but
there is a moratorium on building new, and the ones that are there are
to be condemned for airport reconstruction within the next few years, so
buying an existing owner out isn't a financially viable solution.
Newport is the next closest, again, no hangars available, 10 year
waiting list. North Central is next, with about a 40 minute drive.
There is a new hangar there, but I think it is privately owned and
targetted for bizjets (and priced accordingly).

The problem is the atmosphere here is not very GA friendly, and no one
is going out of their way to put up hangars for small planes at anything
approaching an affordable price. The state owns all 7 airports, and
isn't allowing any new private T hangars on any.

Ray Andraka wrote:

The state owns all 7 airports, and
isn't allowing any new private T hangars

Sounds a lot like where I'm based, but change the state from RI to CT. G

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
If you are in a hangar (especially a personally owned portaport type
hangar) please post back with monthly ground rental or hangar rental,
approximate size of the city/town the airport is located, any amenities
(water, potty, power, etc.) that come along with the rent, and anything
else that will let me have some data foundation for an answer to the
airport manager's assertion that the increase is justified.

Thanks ...

Jim


Small town, 3800 population. Ground lease for a port-a-port is the same as
the tiedown fee (approx $25.00 per month). Pretty logical. Power is
available, but you have to arrange for service. Bathroom and plane wash
area are accessible.

All the T-hangars (14 spaces so far) have been built by groups of aircraft
owners. We financed and built them, and have exclusive use of them for 20
years. At the end of that time, they become the property of the city, and
we have first right to continue to rent them.

Don't want to make you feel bad but in south central Nebraska a metal
tee hanger with bi-fold electric door, electricity, and cement floor
will run from $70 to $90 per month. These are associated with cities of
2,000 to 6,000 population.

The county airport manager wanted a 20% boost in tiedowns to $50 a month and
a 36% boost in ground rental for portaports to $64 a month. About the same
percentage for county owned hangars, 50 cents a month per square foot.

At the airport commission meeting, due to all the data you folks gave me
plus some other stuff from other owners, he got a COLA raise of 3.5%.

You guys are great.

150 airplane owners at KGOO
Say a very hearty thank you.

{;-)

Jim



"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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The local airport authority (county) wants a pretty hefty chunk of change
increase in the ground rental for our personally owned PortAPort hangars
as well as a goodly increase in the county owned permanent T-hangars at
GOO.

("RST Engineering" wrote)
You guys are great.

150 airplane owners at KGOO
Say a very hearty thank you.


GOO ...still a funny name. :-)


Montblack