T-hangar plans

[Bede]

I am looking for plans for T-hangars and the concrete pad. I would be willing to pay for them if I use them. If someone has such plans, can you please send me a PM.

Thanks

[Northern Flyer]

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send me some money it you use this design

[Northern Flyer]

OK that didn't work. All the stupid lines were in the shape of a T. All that work for nothing

[AOW]

try it in a [ code ] [ /code ] block... it should look the way you intended.

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[HS-748 2A]

Bede - There's no real value in building a T hangar. You've got to build more walls, more corners and a complicated roof-line. The only marginal material-saving is in the roof trusses & roofing tin. You'll be money, time and space ahead if you just build a square building the size you need. Also very hard to sell the T hangar down the road as it's only suitable (usually) for the same type A/C. Check out these guys:

http://futuresteel.com/?utm_source=goog ... bAod02waHQ

Down on the lower right of their page, you'll find buildings they are selling off surplus. The list changes all the time but there are great deals to be had; for my 0.02.

'48

[aileron]

...and the concrete pad.

This, and the footings, are going to largely depend on the point loading from the aircraft and the soil conditions you're building over, over.

[Pirate Pilot]

A hanger you say.....I leased a lot at our local airport (85 ft. X 90 ft. approx.) and am thinking of building a hanger. Not a T-Hanger but a nice regular kind of box. Everyone else at our little airport has built a stick-framed wood trussed metal clad hanger. The largest span any of them are is 45 ft. I would like a 60 ft. door and approx. 16 ft. height just in case I could get a tenant with a King Air or something like that. I googled Hanger Plans or something like that and got a whole bunch of metal building companies. I dutifully filled out the form regarding info. re: size, placement, location, etc. and I "released the hounds" My office phone would not stop ringing with offers for metal buildings provided by companies from all over North America. I will tell you (somebody mentioned previously) that I got a couple of calls from outfits that had buildings already built and palleted ready for shipment that the orginal purchaser had defaulted after having paid the deposit and the price was pretty spectacular. I've got the notes back at my office but I remember a 68' X 72 Ft. 18 ft. height for $32,000. I called those guys back and they wanted me to pay the freight from California to the Interior of B.C. I said I would think about it.....They called me back within 1 hr. and said they'd pay the freight!!! Well, then I got sick (no really!) and I had to drop the project. I still have their names and addresses. I got quotes up to $85,000. from Canadian steel building guys and the lowest ones were all from the U.S.
I would say the hot ticket would be to shop around to see if you can pick up a defaulted order from some steel building outfit and then the pour the concrete to match the building if its suitable for you. You could save thousands !!!

[Beefitarian]

Also in a regular hanger you can eventually install a urinal, wet bar, couch and large screen television so you can hang out more with your best friend, the airplane!

Even if you only keep soda pop and snacks in the bar, it would be steller for when you do something like polish the plane or light maintanence like changing the door handles or watching your AME.

If you opt for a full toilet you'll need quite a bit more septic just in case someone uses it. You could plumb it to a holding tank and get it sucked out by a vacume truck or you may be able to get hooked into the sewer lines if your airport has them. With a urinal and two sinks you can probalby get a good grey water filter system that drains to the lawn behind the hanger, if there isn't water available you can get a couple hundred gallon supply tank. You don't have to do any of these things when you first build the hanger. You just need to rough in the plumbing if you insulate and drywall it.

To start you can just build the frame and sheeting.You don't even need to put the concrete in at first, just prepare the gravel pad properly and it will be just fine until you want to spend the money on concrete.

[flyinggreasemonkey]

T hangars only make sense when land is at a premium and you need to stagger them like tetris blocks. I say go for the regular hangar and get the extra floor space.

[Hedley]

Back in 1980 a bunch of us got together in Burlington and built a row of hangars.

We ended up going "pole barn". No foundation. A row of ten hangars, 40x40 each, the resulting building is 400 feet long with many 40 foot wooden trusses. I'm sure it's still there. People could concrete/pave/patio stone the interiors of their hangar, or not. Doors were up to each person, IIRC. It's been 30 years!

The only problem with this was that you could get dust blowing through the hangar through the trusses. Pretty minor.

If you want an individual hangar, what works well is to pour a pad, and get 50 foot wooden trusses, with the door opening a couple feet less than that. The hangar can be 50, 60 or 70 feet deep, depending upon the size of the lot. You can go deeper than that, but the stuff at the back is pretty much permanent storage - you can never get it out! The walls are constructed with 2x6's, either 12 feet or 14 feet (better) long. You build them on the pad, then rotate them vertical, tied to the pad.

If you want to go wider than a 50 foot span, you need to look at metal construction, which in my experience is more expensive unless you go for something weird, like a quonset hut or a geodesic dome, which your airport authority may not like.

[albertdesalvo]

Considered something like this? There are lots of them in my neck of the woods:

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[mike53]

Bede - There's no real value in building a T hangar. You've got to build more walls, more corners and a complicated roof-line. The only marginal material-saving is in the roof trusses & roofing tin. You'll be money, time and space ahead if you just build a square building the size you need. Also very hard to sell the T hangar down the road as it's only suitable (usually) for the same type A/C. Check out these guys:

http://futuresteel.com/?utm_source=goog ... bAod02waHQ

Down on the lower right of their page, you'll find buildings they are selling off surplus. The list changes all the time but there are great deals to be had; for my 0.02.

'48

Future steel(American Co.) is playing everyone for the fool.It's a classic American selling ploy."We had all these cancellations and we are offering them to you at great savings" Bull! They will then pressure you on the phone to act now as the one you want will not be around by the end of the day . It's a gimmick ,don't fall for it. Someone in town here did fall for it and I called Pioneer steel and bought a slightly bigger building for $600 less. Pioneer steel is a Canadian Company here in Ontario. There was no pressure sales and they also offer an engineered foundation made of steel that saved me an additional $4000 over a traditional foundation with footings and poured cement foundation walls.I assembled the frame myself ran rebar in both directions,added in-floor heating and had a proffessional do the cement finishing.If you don't want the traditional quonset hut look just order the steel foundation and put up 2x6 walls and a trussed roof.Very slick and no I'm not getting any commission. It's just a good product .I built a 20'x36' work shop for under $12000

[fleet16b]

Considered something like this? There are lots of them in my neck of the woods:

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Just make sure if you use a structure like this that you close off one end.
I have seen a/c heavily damaged because the structure ended up becoming a wind tunnel and actually lifting the a/c off the ground. It can actually be worse having your a/c in one on a windy day than if it were tied down outside.

[albertdesalvo]

I have seen open ended ones, but probably 99% of them are closed on both ends. These things are popping up like daisys on the farms around here, I haven't seen a new wooden or steel structure in a long time. The "Megadome" brand seems particularly popular.