Five times as much difference would be worth it for a secure hangar.Īpart from a protected parking space, what’s the point of hangars anyway? They are a service airports provide in the interest of promoting and sustaining aviation, they attract business and planned correctly, they can and should provide revenue for the airport and the city or county. In Venice, we pay $294.25 for an older hangar with sliding doors that are wholly inappropriate for hurricane country. Like most modern code hangars, it has a Hydro-Swing door and additional steel reinforcement. Like all of the T-hangars there, it was constructed after hurricane Charley flattened the place in 2004. Really? My Cub partner, Bob, also has a hangar at Punta Gorda for his Lance. The argument that no hangar could survive anything stronger so why bother strikes me as defeatist in the same way that people who don’t bother with storm shutters or impact windows live in a fantasy world where reality never intrudes.
That’s a strong Cat 4 but may as well call it a weak 5. You could ask what it even means and I would reply that it means hangars built to modern code that can withstand gusts to 155 MPH, as the Punta Gorda hangars did. I will concede that my choice of “storm safe,” driven by the need for brevity in a poll question, was a bit leading. If my Cub escaped undamaged, it may be awhile before I can confirm that. The city has locked all the owners out of the airport and stationed police to prevent access. Our entire hangar complex was damaged to an unknown degree, including the one sheltering our Cub.
A potential disaster was instead a short wait for electric power to be restored and some debris cleanup.Īs I reported in a previous blog, my home airport, Venice, was not so fortunate, despite being exposed to winds half as high as Punta Gorda experienced. When Hurricane Ian swept through last week, their “storm safe” hangars remained intact and so did the aircraft inside. The uninformed may enjoy a cynical laugh, but I can assure you a couple of hundred owners of hangars at Punta Gorda airport are breathing a sigh of relief. Requiring something that does not exist is laughable.”Įmbodied in this comment, which appeared in last week’s poll, is the sort of low-information that bedevils credible preparation for increasingly expensive weather disasters.
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