Tell me about your hangar block.

[trailer]

I am curious to know how much you or your buddy pays for a single hangar block lease or rates and for what size block. Could you also include the location, if it is private, club or public, add info on what services (if any) are available and if its a lease how long is it.   Trying to present something to a council for them to think about making some space available for private hangars. 

[Moneybox]

Tell em it's a community service supplied for free by all respectable proactive towns. 😇

[skippydiesel]

If you cant get permission for or afford a conventional hanger why not a temporary structure?

 

I am impressed by the potential for either stand alone arcs/polly tunnels or the ark on top of two containers.

 

[onetrack]

Skippy, they're called Dome Shelters, and they're very popular on mine sites, and even industrial sites, where fixed buildings are a wasted investment.

 

The best part is, they're very saleable secondhand, because they can be easily dismantled and moved. The Australian-built ones are vastly better quality than the cheap Chinese rubbish.

 

https://www.domeshelter.com.au/

 

 

[Moneybox]

A hanger at the Cue airport has to be a CASA approved structure and the dome shelter doesn’t meet the standard. The one hanger out there consists of the same two 40’ containers with a colour bond roof on a couple of trusses. It does look a lot better and will surely still be there long after the plastic shelter has degraded. 

[T510]

I currently have an All Shelter (Dome shelter), at 10 years old the canvas is starting to deteriorate and I am looking to replace it with a metal hangar.

 

Our shire council requires permits if you want to put in a shipping container or an All Shelter.

 

 

[skippydiesel]

I guess Councils can make the rules however seems crazy that a structure without foundations can be of any interest to a Council.

 

As for Cue - are you seeking to put up a temporary shelter or a hanger?  Words matter.

 

The word "hanger" has all sorts of connotations in the mind of a petty Council bureaucrat.

 

Temporary structure is just that - usually without significant foundation/earth works. Quick to erect, almost as quick to remove. Not usually of great interest to Councils (unless someone complains). The arc/dome covering is more like a heavy duty tarp, than what is used for polly tunnels

 

To late now but was it wise to contact Council in the first instance? "Better to seek forgiveness than permission".😈

Edited Friday at 10:04 PM by skippydiesel

[facthunter]

Rub the Councils nose in the Cat$#1t and you might just as well leave town. Nev

[Moneybox]

5 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

I guess Councils can make the rules however seems crazy that a structure without foundations can be of any interest to a Council.

 

As for Cue - are you seeking to put up a temporary shelter or a hanger?  Words matter.

 

The word "hanger" has all sorts of connotations in the mind of a petty Council bureaucrat.

 

Temporary structure is just that - usually without significant foundation/earth works. Quick to erect, almost as quick to remove. Not usually of great interest to Councils (unless someone complains). The arc/dome covering is more like a heavy duty tarp, than what is used for polly tunnels

 

To late now but was it wise to contact Council in the first instance? "Better to seek forgiveness than permission".😈

The only application I made to the council was an informal email to the Town Planner to discuss the need for approval of an open machinery shed adjacent to the existing shed in the middle of the lease. I was told I would need approval as it's within the town boundary and it was unlikely it would be approved. It was about a week before I got the notification from the Mines Department stating that the shire wanted to take my lease.

 

I can erect a structure without a solid roof, shade cloth for example, without applying for approval but that's on my land not at the airport. I cannot place a container on my land without approval.

[KRviator]

Upper Hunter Council is going to vote on Monday to sell of ~4,000m2 of "roadway" within the airport confines after an adjoining landowner made an unsolicited approach to Council to buy it, to incorporate it into their two existing lots. The price according to an "independent valuation"? A mere $85,000. For 4000m2 of prime airport land. And that's without going to tender or anything as "There's unlikely to be more than one interested party...."

Oh, and it also involves closing the road, thus limiting vehicular access to some hangars until Council decide to design, approve and construct a new intersection and internal roadway and godonlyknows what cost to their ratepayers...

[Flightrite]

The word Aviation to councils is like waving a red rag to a bull! Their sole purpose is to be obstructive 🤮

[facthunter]

People don't want planes flying around their proximity. More responsive to a "Greased Palm" for a new subdivision which increases Rate income. Nev

[Moneybox]

14 hours ago, KRviator said:

Upper Hunter Council is going to vote on Monday to sell of ~4,000m2 of "roadway" within the airport confines after an adjoining landowner made an unsolicited approach to Council to buy it, to incorporate it into their two existing lots. The price according to an "independent valuation"? A mere $85,000. For 4000m2 of prime airport land. And that's without going to tender or anything as "There's unlikely to be more than one interested party...."

Oh, and it also involves closing the road, thus limiting vehicular access to some hangars until Council decide to design, approve and construct a new intersection and internal roadway and godonlyknows what cost to their ratepayers...

Sounds like an opportunity for a great hanger block. If you could afford to get started an have a couple others build hangers on your block for a little rent.

[facthunter]

Which aerodrome are you referring to?  Nev