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Old February 28th 08, 03:14 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Morgans[_2_]
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"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:54:18 -0500, "Morgans"
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It is against fire code to construct an aircraft or perform major
maintenance in a hangar that is not equipped with a sprinkler system. I
know this, because our local EAA chapter has been looking into
constructing
a hangar, and to do more than final assembly will not be allowed without
sprinklers, which of course costs big money.


Is that a local code? Neither of the A&P's I use have sprinklers,
and they run legit businesses that do major repairs.


As far as I know, NC fire code. Could be that an older building is
grandfathered in, but to build new, there was no doubt that there would have
to be sprinklers.
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Jim in NC