No more hanger parties

Champcar

Champcar

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We used to have hangar parties all the time when I was in flight school (at GEU coincidentally) Apparently the FAA has now decided what you can and can not store in your hanger at a publicly funded airport and it was the impetus for the recent homebuilding proposed rule change. According to this document http://www.flybvu.com/sites/default/files/FAA.KWillis.July12,2012.ltr_..pdf cases of beer and a ping pong table may not be deemed "aeronautical use." Naturally we can make the case it is proper use.....

Source: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/EAA-To-Fight-Hangar-Homebuilding-Policy222570-1.html
 
But Hangar parties are still on FTW!

But, will this affect Jay Leno's car collection?
 
While I can see how this helps keep aviation-for-aviation's-sake, I think it goes too far, and makes me long for a privately-owned airport to call my home.
 
Champcar said:
We used to have hangar parties all the time when I was in flight school (at GEU coincidentally) Apparently the FAA has now decided what you can and can not store in your hanger at a publicly funded airport and it was the impetus for the recent homebuilding proposed rule change. According to this document http://www.flybvu.com/sites/default/files/FAA.KWillis.July12,2012.ltr_..pdf cases of beer and a ping pong table may not be deemed "aeronautical use." Naturally we can make the case it is proper use.....

Source: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/EAA-To-Fight-Hangar-Homebuilding-Policy222570-1.html
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K, that's duly noted, thank you.
 
The new rule is acutaly an improvement over what is currently on the books, but rarely if ever enforced.

An old couch, fridge for your beer, and maybe even a motorcycle and temporeary functions like hangar parties are not the problem that the FAA is trying to fix. The city who was using a hangar at the airport as their city vehicle auto shop and the other city who had converted another hangar to a warehouse to store school books is the problem.

The EAA is trying to get the FAA to ease up on the interpertation that a hangar should only be used for final assembly of homebuilt airplanes, as opposed to the entire but this is hardly the homebuilders apocylopse. It's a really bad idea to do most of your building at the airport anyway, your home garage is much better.
 
If you look closer there is a carve out for "incidentals"...


And idk about you but I consider anything that would be in my basement "man cave" a hangar incidental....
 
I can see both sides, but I doubt the Feds are snooping around the local airport looking for bar-b-q's and motorcycles... This may actually be a good thing. At my home airport (KCRG) the city "utilized" a ginormous old army national guard hangar to store trash cans in. TRASH CANS!? Really! Meanwhile the local airport authority was practically begging them to rent the space to owners of private aircraft and a couple local 135 ops because there isn't really any more room around the field. Would of brought more business to the field and generated some nice profits for the city at the very least. So if this rule changes that aspect of it, then I say it could be okay.
 
chrisreedrules said:
I can see both sides, but I doubt the Feds are snooping around the local airport looking for bar-b-q's and motorcycles... This may actually be a good thing. At my home airport (KCRG) the city "utilized" a ginormous old army national guard hangar to store trash cans in. TRASH CANS!? Really! Meanwhile the local airport authority was practically begging them to rent the space to owners of private aircraft and a couple local 135 ops because there isn't really any more room around the field. Would of brought more business to the field and generated some nice profits for the city at the very least. So if this rule changes that aspect of it, then I say it could be okay.
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It's not the good natured intent that I doubt, it's what some fsdo Inspector with a self made mission will do that causes me worry for my mid life crisis plan...
 
Glad to see more teeth in that. I'm sick of dealing with construction equipment, boats and motor homes parked ON the taxiways.
 
Sol Rosenburg said:
I'd venture to guess Burbank and Van Nuys has as many exotic cars as planes in their hangars.
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There may be a grey area when the hangar is on airport property but the building itself is privately owned. We have a hangar at Chino that's used exclusively for parties, mostly wedding receptions.It's a business; http://www.calaeroevents.com/



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fholbert said:
There may be a grey area when the hangar is on airport property but the building itself is privately owned. We have a hangar at Chino that's used exclusively for parties, mostly wedding receptions.It's a business; http://www.calaeroevents.com/



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Now that's a hangar party. Slightly on the ritzy, less hillbilly side but good work none the less.

"Our" airshow camp out spot got turned into a township shooting range, which we cannot use. I wonder how many used green glass containers they found....
 
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