Airplane Hangar

We've gotten a new home for Victor Fox, and although it may seem odd to have a section of the website dedicated to the hangar, we've made a significant number of improvements that I thought folks might be interested in. The hangar is 15I at Lebanon-Warren County Airport, and the shop/pilot's lounge is 15J. The Brainards and Bul's will be using the adjoining hangar, which is cool not only because they'll be next door, but because the dividing wall has been removed by the previous tenants, so both hangars have access to the attached office. We're convertting that office into a sweet shop, parts department, and pilot's lounge. My hangar and the office were already insulated, which is awesome.

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04/23/2010 So I'm a bit OCD when it comes to some things. There are some things that I've done to the hangar that are just for me. Sure they have some usefullness, but they just make it feel "professional" to me. To that end, I've labelled the field's frequencies on both sides of the pilot's lounge/shop door for easy tuning. I've also properly mounted my fire extinguishers and mounted signs over them in the event (heaven forbid) we ever have a fire. Overkill? Sure, but it makes me feel good. Oh, and the lounge got a major upgrade as Dave Gallagher (a local Zodiac 601 builder/flyer) was looking for a home for his home office corner desk. He thought it would look good in my office, and I had to agree. Back to Top

Pilot's lounge desk and chair

Frequencies

Fire Protection

03/21/2010 The weather finally warmed up enough on a weekend that we wanted to open the doors. So we decided to start installing our brushes to keep the birds and peebles out of the hangar. We haven't gotten any visitors yet here, but the birds were a constant problem in the old hangar. Also, Bob and Jerry's hangar is not insulated. In order to keep air flow whistling through, and for future painting (to keep it from flowing into other's hangars), we're adding spray foam under and above the walls to seal them. Back to Top

Hangar radio

Before installing door brushes (light!)

Bottom door brushes

Side door brushes

Sealing under uninsulated wall

01/31/2010 This is it, we're officially out of 8H and have turned in the keys. She was good to us, much better than we were to her... just look at that floor. The epoxy floor paint never really stuck properly, and now it's covered in overspray. Back to Top

8 Hotel is abandoned

01/28/2010 So, this is our new home. This is pre-improvements, but notice that there's no wall between the deep sections of the 'T's. This is really nice for us as we'll have un-obstructed access to both hangars from the shop. We also happen to be 2 rows of hangars closer to the FBO, and their climate-controlled bathroom facilities! Hard to beat that. Back to Top

New home of Victor Fox

Office Door - Electric service to left

01/28/2010 Just in case folks think we've sold or moved away from Lebanon, this new signage will show everyone where we've moved. Sure it'll probably get us more attention than I care for (I'm really not an attention hound), but for those curious what that thing was, here is the answer. Back to Top

Personnel doors are decorated now

01/28/2010 Every hangar needs to have a sense of who it belongs to, right? :-). I certainly think so, that's why I got a 16'x4' Velocity Logo Banner for the back of ours! This bad-boy came from LettersInVinyl.com Back to Top

16'x4' Velocity Logo Banner

01/21/2010 So, I built my plane almost exclusively with electric tools, but the wing repair and painting process did teach me the value of having a decent compressor and tools. So, I got a nice 80 gallon Kobalt high-flow air compressor from Lowes, which will be more than adequate for my needs, and should be plenty to paint Bob and Jerry's planes as well. Buying this unit was enabled by the fact that the previous tenants of this hangar pair had installed 240V 2-phase electric. In order to install this unit, we installed a side-port valve to hook up to future paint usage (so we can regulate it at the gun) and a drain valve for water. We also bought a set of vibration isolators from Grainger for the compressor's feet. Back to Top

Air Compressor

02/13/2010 We ran 2 additional electrical circuits through the hangar so we don't pop breakers as often, and when we do we can reset them instead of go looking for a lineman, and installed a couple of 30' retractable extension cord reels. I think these things are the bomb. We have them in our shops, but at the hangar we've always had to deal with cords on the floor all of the time, getting dirty and causing things not to want to roll. With these we can get the power where we need to, and then quickly put it away too. Back to Top

Retractable Reels

Extra Circuits

01/19/2010 As I mentioned, we have 240V service in the new hangar, and the shop has been wired with about a dozen circuits, which is nice, though they're only on two walls. We'll be adding some circuits to the other walls, and we've added heating to the already installed air conditioning. We've also installed 10 double 4' flourescent lighting units per hangar, with nice 6500K bulbs so we have some nice lighting, and we've added a new switched outlet for the new lights (which we ran with extension cords to make the installation simpler). Back to Top

Improved Lighting

240V Heater

01/31/2010 Before Bob cut the holy crap out of his hand installing the new light switch on his hangar, he finished putting up the fiberglass spool rails. This is a copy of what the Brainards did in their shop, and will be nicer than what we've had in the past. This keeps the glass out of the way, while keeping it handy, and keeping the dust off of it to a certain degree all at the same time. Elizabeth also let me get a nice new full size tool chest. I've been using a hand-me-down that was pretty decent when we started the project, but was always a little small, and started to rust really badly. Back to Top

Fiberglass Storage Rails

Work table

01/20/2010 The shop is one of the best aspects of this (rather time-consuming) hangar move. The office is a full 1/2 of a standard T hangar, pre insulated and air conditioned, with a exterior door as well as one to the hangar side. As I mentioned in the electric section, it was pre-wired with a bunch of circuits from when the jump club used it as a small diner. We've installed a glass-cutting table and epoxy hot box, heating, our drill press and band saw, grinder, and some heavy-duty shelving so we can get everything organized. We're in the process of adding additional bolt small parts boxes to make everything easy to get to. Back to Top

Storage and bolt bins

Storage and cutting table

Work table