ktbr wrote:
Don Tuite wrote:
There's a 20 year waiting list at our airport. These are county-built
hangars. Guys on the list with working airplanes seem happy to have
the airport manager evict people who use their hangars for storage
lockers.

Any airport that thinks it is a good idea to lease their hangars
out to people who are using them to store furniture in is not
serious about aviation.

I agree, but sometimes it happens without the airport management
even knowing about it. Then you'll find out how hard it is to put
right.

In our case, we have some leasehold agreements that don't specify
aviation activity. We have some that do, but whose owners have been
in blatant default for *decades*. We have a sprinkling of the well-
connected who ignore the regulations entirely and get away with it.

But the vast majority of us are bone fide pilots. We put our planes
to bed at night and then socialize in the hangars. Lot of fun that'd
be on the concrete floor with no beer. Some of us fly in from out of
town on the weekend, park the plane and swap it for a boat to go
on the lake. We're caught up in a "rationalization" caused by the
accumulated mis-management over several years and are doing
our best to preserve the environment we love.