Building a Hangar Condo

germb747

germb747

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Does anyone here have any experience with building a hangar with a small condo or crashpad inside?
 
Before I left Texas I helped a student build one. The hangar was 60x50 with a full apartment inside, a hydro-swing door, all concrete and septic hookup.

When all was said and done she spent about $70,000.
 
esa17 said:
Before I left Texas I helped a student build one. The hangar was 60x50 with a full apartment inside, a hydro-swing door, all concrete and septic hookup.

When all was said and done she spent about $70,000.
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Wow--That's awesome! When/where was this if you don't mind my asking? I think about doing just that in the San Antonio area, although I figured I'd probably be spending much more than that. The specific lot I'm looking at is asking for over 80K, and that's before the first piece of concrete is poured. Anyone is particular I could speak to who could build one at a bargain?

Thanks
 
2 more posts, Hoop. You can do it!

I've seen some awesome hangar condos. T67 or T76? Whatever Hicks field north of FW is has some great ones.

What field are are you building on? What kind of plane?
 
frog_flyer said:
2 more posts, Hoop. You can do it!

I've seen some awesome hangar condos. T67 or T76? Whatever Hicks field north of FW is has some great ones.

What field are are you building on? What kind of plane?
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Did you see the loft with the big panes of glass overlooking the aircraft? There are quite a few fantastic Hangar condos at T67!
 
exneophyte said:
Sounds like my dream home
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germb747 said:
Wow--That's awesome! When/where was this if you don't mind my asking? I think about doing just that in the San Antonio area, although I figured I'd probably be spending much more than that. The specific lot I'm looking at is asking for over 80K, and that's before the first piece of concrete is poured. Anyone is particular I could speak to who could build one at a bargain?

Thanks
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You hunting up @ 8T8? You should get that 10 acre lot and sell me 2 of 'em for about 50K. :D
 
A quonset hut style hanger with attached condo/home and a swimming pool/hot tub combo is my dream. And Waco's and a Howard DGA-11 and a Clipped-wing Cub with clipped Taylorcraft wings on it and a 180 Lycoming. And a team of Polynesian girls to wash the airplanes, mow, and frolic by the pool.
 
ETAV8R said:
How cool is this:

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Extremely! Although I would want something with higher doors (in case you forget to move the prop horizontal) and would also like something that had enough vertical clearance to jack the plane up (Stagg retract tests) or change an engine. That would be adequate even with the small door if there was a lot of vertical space once inside. But yeah...pretty cool.
 
I'm reminded of the 'Redneck Mansion.'
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Seriously though... Outside of being able to get an inexpensive building constructed and then retrofitting it to be habitable you have to also consider the long term costs associated with non-traditional construction, (i.e. utilities and the like) the local building codes/permits, and etc. That's what usually kills a lot of these projects even though it would be a much cheaper way to go for a domicile. (at least according to everyone in my family that does contracting/construction when I talked with them about something like this a couple of years ago.)
 

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That one is awesome. Heck you could start a charter/flight school or some sort of operation out of there and then write off the home portion as a business deduction. At that price you couldn't touch most of anything in CA.
 
ETAV8R said:
That one is awesome. Heck you could start a charter/flight school or some sort of operation out of there and then write off the home portion as a business deduction. At that price you couldn't touch most of anything in CA.
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The flight school I instructed at actually leased a hangar where the owner had his office which consisted of a two bedroom apartment. Most of his time was spent hanging out in there playing Xbox.:) There were a few dorm rooms for some of the students, there was also a full kitchen area built and an instructor lounge. It would have been real nice, but the students didn't take care of the place.
 
KLB said:
The flight school I instructed at actually leased a hangar where the owner had his office which consisted of a two bedroom apartment. Most of his time was spent hanging out in there playing Xbox.:) There were a few dorm rooms for some of the students, there was also a full kitchen area built and an instructor lounge. It would have been real nice, but the students didn't take care of the place.
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It's a shame but people rarely take care of things that don't belong to them. When I lived on single base housing the common areas always had left over food/wraps, smelled like ass and stale beer.
 
I have always wanted to get a two story hangar and live on the second story. I've seen a few for sale around here for just over 100k. I figure if I ever get my A&P I can live at my work place. Do annuals and whatnot and still flight instruct. It would be a dream way to live.
 
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