Finding the right nest for your bird takes a bit of math, but High Flying Hangars has that covered.
Details matter when it comes to matching your airplane with its new home. Not only does it have to fit—and maneuver in easily with you driving solo on the tug—it needs to grant enough additional space for you to outfit it with shelving, tool boxes, and the tug itself, and potentially any amenities such as a private bathroom, galley kitchen, seating area, or outside pedestrian door.
Not all aircraft hangars that measure a given set of dimensions are alike, though they may appear so from the exterior. Inside, they’re more like snowflakes in their nearly infinite number of minute variations.
To assist its team in finding the right hangar on the row for a given client, High Flying Hangars utilizes Airplx, a web-based hangar floorplan tool for FBOs and other airport-based businesses. HFH can provide you with a general layout to help you determine exactly how your Pilatus PC-12 (53 ft 3 in wingspan by 47 ft 3 in length) or Cessna Citation CJ3 (53 ft 2 in by 51 ft 2 in length) or Beech A36 Bonanza (33 ft 6 in wingspan by 27 ft 6 in length)—or your friend’s visiting Cubcrafters Carbon Cub (34 ft 3 in wingspan by 23 ft 3 in length)—may fit into your hangar.
The folks at High Flying Hangars are aircraft owners, too, and they have taken that knowledge into account as they’ve planned each development in progress.
Got a pristine Piper Cherokee Six—which some would say is the best used six seater in the world? With its 33-ft wingspan, the Six will fit neatly into a 40-ft wide hangar with a bi-fold door. But the standard 30-ft depth on a lot of T-hangars out there may be a tight squeeze for its length, at 27 ft 9 in, depending upon the building’s internal bracing and other fixtures inside.
Maybe you fly an experimental twin, like the Air Cam. While it typically weighs less than 2,000 pounds, its longish wings (36 ft) and tandem seating (27 ft length) mean it nearly fills a 40 ft by 30 ft hangar, without much room to perform a walkaround—or keep the snowmobile suits handy that are required for flying it when the temps drop below 60 degrees F!
But with a High Flying Hangars unit, you’ll have a little more room to maneuver. Depending on the site plan, our smallest hangars come with exterior dimensions of 41ft 6 in wide and 30 feet deep, with an interior width of 40 ft 6 in or 40 ft 10 in, and an interior depth of 29 ft to work with. Door opening widths and heights vary with end and mid-row units, but are at least 39 ft 10 in wide and 12 ft high.
With a 50 ft by 40 ft aircraft hangar, HFH includes a private bathroom, with dimensions of 12 ft wide and 9 ft deep, so that they are ADA compliant. These units give a door opening height of 14 ft as well.
Want to share the expenses of your hangar with a like-minded friend? There are a number of ways that two or three light aircraft can fit into one 60 ft by 60 ft hangar, but you want to make sure there’s enough room to maneuver—and that you can readily retrieve your airplane when the time comes to fly. The step up in size may also afford an owner the ability to add in features that wouldn’t be possible in reality in a smaller unit, like a lounge area or space to park a vintage automobile. It also ensures you have the flexibility you may want if you’re considering an additional aircraft, or if trading up to a turbine-powered aircraft is in your future. The HFH 60 ft wide hangar, with its 18 ft 6 in clear door height, will accommodate a wide range of aircraft, including the popular Embraer Phenom 300.
High Flying Hangars is happy to help you find the right hangar fitting and work through these planform Jengas with you. It’s just one of the many elements that differentiates our business model from the standard airport hangar row.
