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Leasehold hangars and content restrictions
Tony Cox wrote: 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... Our airport went through that a few years ago. I can't come up with the reg's, but my understanding is that property on a federally funded airport must be used for aviation related themes. We had people using hangars as workshops for their auto racing teams, people storing boats, etc. If you have an aircraft in the hangar, the airport doesn't have any problem with you storing odds and ends there in addition to the aircraft. KB |
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