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September 5th 14, 03:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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FAA says homebuilders have to build the components of their projects off-airport
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On Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:54:17 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 8/08/2014 1:03 AM, Larry Dighera wrote:
FAA Says Hangars No Place For Homebuilders
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...avweb:e2872:21
8609a:&st=email#222534
The FAA says most of the work involved in building an airplane is a
"non-aeronautical use" and it has singled out homebuilders in a new
proposed
policy statement issued July 22. Policy
https://www.federalregister.gov/arti...031/policy-on-
the-non-aeronautical-use-of-airport-hangars#h-13
on the Non-Aeronautical Use Of Airport says homebuilders will have to
build the
components of their projects elsewhere and can only move to a hangar for
final
assembly. Comments are being accepted until Sept. 5 and can be submitted
online
citing docket number FAA-2014-0463 http://www.regulations.gov/#!home.
The
agency has devoted a separate section in the proposed policy to
explaining its
stand. The essence is that the principal role of a hangar is to supply
enclosed
storage for aircraft to give ready access to the runway. The FAA's
argument is
that bucking rivets on a wing doesn't require a runway so it's not an
aeronautical use. It also says the policy has always been in force. "The
FAA is
not proposing any change to existing policy other than to clarify that
final
assembly of an aircraft, leading to the completion of the aircraft to a
point
where it can be taxied, will be considered an aeronautical use," the
proposed
policy says. EAA is aware of the proposed policy and staff are assessing
it.
The new policy statement is the result of stepped-up enforcement of the
rules
regarding uses of airport hangars. In dozens of audits conducted over the
past
two years, the agency has found hangars crammed with just about
everything but
airplanes. Household goods, cars, even non-aviation related businesses
have
been discovered. The FAA says that because federal funds are used to
build and
maintain airports, the use of airport facilities for non-aeronautical
uses
amounts to a subsidy for those uses. In some cases the city or county
responsible for the airport was the violator. Auditors found police cars
and
other municipal assets tucked safely away in airport hangars. The
proposed
policy will also clarify the incidental storage of non-aeronautical items
in
hangars, meaning that a couch and a beer fridge will probably be safe
from the
feds.
Although of obvious concern to those who are using aircraft hangers to
build their aircraf, the FAA does appear to have a point. Demand for
hanger space for non-Aviation purposes will inevitably push up the cost
of hanger space to those who, because their use is Aviation related,
have no practical alternative.
Sylvia.
How about using the hangers to quarantine arriving Ebola patients, ala Ellis
Island ??
How about putting "jgrove" and others of his ilk in there with them?
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