As long as there is an aircraft in the hanger, you should be able to store
other items that you personally own. Some airports are pushing against RVs,
Cars and Boats and household junk. But most will lean over if there is an
airplane in the hanger.

It makes no difference if the hangers are personally built and owned. They
are sitting on airport property where you probably pay a lease for ground
use and the airport has FAA Money. The Airport could loose future funding
and have to pay back previous funding if they continued to allow non
aviation use of airport property.

BT

"Tony Cox" wrote in message
oups.com...
At my home airport, we have a new airport manager
who seems to be on a mission to eradicate anything
but aircraft from leasehold hangars. He claims to have
discovered FAA support for this position during his
"on the job" training -- he is not a pilot, and has no prior
aviation experience -- but he cannot come up with
anything written. We pilots are, naturally, rather
skeptical that the FAA has expressed an opinion
one way or another.

Hangars are all owner-financed (no FAA money), typically
originally with a 30 year lease. It's a municipal airport,
exclusively civilian use, and has in the past been the recipient
of FAA grant money and will no doubt receive additional
FAA funds in the future. There are roughly 100 "private"
hangars (not commercial) at the airport. We're not a pt
139 airport -- some pt 135 sightseeing flights & that's all.

Does anyone have any experience with airport managers,
and/or rules and regulations that restrict what one can
store in one's hangar? Our pilot community is concerned that
our lifestyle is under threat -- historically, people have stored
cars, RVs, boats, tables, chairs, sofas and all manner of toys
and comfort items along with aircraft.

Perhaps there is even someone out there who has a definitive
ruling from the local FSDO...