I'm curious what range of costs there are leasing a hangar lot at a municipal airport across the country? I pay $.08 per square foot per year. A 50'x 50' hangar lot is $200 per year. My lease is from our county, our airport sponsor.

Mr. Helix

At our lake cabin in central Minnesota lakes country, a lot lease is $300 per year, 50' x 50' lot. Grass strip, lights, no services. City takes care of the upkeep, with help from some volunteers.

We pay $103 per month in Northwood, ND for a brand new hanger, with a power door and electricity. They have a Full service FBO, the Airport Authority owns the building.

Tonasket WA $100.00 a year. Lopez Island WA I think is about $330.00 a year.....

I meant to add also that in addition to the lot lease we also pay property tax on the hangar building. That is about $600 per year plus the $200 for lot lease.

Mr. Helix

My friend is in charge of the rent....because I'm in charge of the mainance. However, I think it is 450 a month for the rent on the hanger we have at SQL. He was on the list for 14 years before a hanger came up........his dad put him on the list when he was 12. Yay dad!

Way too much money for a hanger. One more reason to move out of this crazy place (SF bay area.)

In Twin Falls Id I pay 180.00 per year for 75by 75 lot, we pay all services and property tax.

The lease is a 99 year lease.

Dane

Helix:

I am in Great Falls and store my plane at a hanger owned by the local FBO (Holman). It's in a large unheated hanger with about 20 other planes. I pay $1,350/year. They pull it out and put it away for me and have a heated wash bay available that's included in the price and will also plug it in for me during the winter months. It's a 24 hour FBO so there's always someone there.

As I understand it, the Great Falls airport authority has resisted any effort to lease the available ground (and there seems to be plenty of it) to private plane owners for hangar construction.

Joe.

lanef53,

Where is your lease in MN?

As for hangar fees, I have a hangar at my place near Itasca State Park for my Champ so that one costs me nothing. But I pay $95/month in Park Rapids for a hangar for the 172. The 172 is for sale and if it is sold the hangar will be available.

Keith

The airport in MN is in Battle lake, MN. We don't have a lease at the moment, there was a push over the last couple years to close the airport, so we were holding off. Now that seems to be resolved, so hopefully we will sign a lease and get one put up. They are talking about a 10 year lease now, befor it was a year by year deal.

At Jefferson County Airport in Port Townsend WA, private owners lease ground from the Port of PT which owns the airport. The lease rate is based on building footprint, current rate is approx $.50 per sq foot per year. So a 50' X 50' hangar would be paying about $1,250 for the ground lease, plus about 13% state leasehold tax. Plus annual county property tax on the building value, plus power, etc--of course.

Eric

mtbowhunter wrote:Helix:

I am in Great Falls and store my plane at a hanger owned by the local FBO (Holman). It's in a large unheated hanger with about 20 other planes. I pay $1,350/year. They pull it out and put it away for me and have a heated wash bay available that's included in the price and will also plug it in for me during the winter months. It's a 24 hour FBO so there's always someone there.

As I understand it, the Great Falls airport authority has resisted any effort to lease the available ground (and there seems to be plenty of it) to private plane owners for hangar construction.

Joe.

My brother encountered the same resistance at Alexandria, Minnesota. Since the airport (city) takes money from the FAA, they have no choice but to allow private hangars and to lease a spot for them. You may want to have an AOPA attorney look into it for you.

Jon B.

Jon B.

I will do the unthinkable here and admit that I actually am an attorney. However, I haven't looked into the legal end of the issue regarding private hangers. That's just what I have been told by other pilots around the airport. I am pretty happy with the arrangement I have with the local FBO, renting space in their hanger. It's a laid back atmosphere and they don't restrict me from doing anything I would otherwise do if I had a private hanger.

I do think there are pilots here though, that would like to see the available land leased for the construction of private hangers.

Jon,

I've been to GTF many times and have noticed it has the same problem as Missoula; an airport authority that doesn't want to offer hangar lots for lease. It could be that the FBO doesn't want them available too?

Compare either GTF or MSO to Bozeman. Bozeman has an GA friendly board and as a result they have a big number of hangars making money for the airport sponsor.

Where have I been?

My brother is the AOPA ASP (or whatever it's called) - the liaison person for the local airport council and the pilots. The city attorney was being a complete prick about it, and sent a letter on his own authority, without any action from the city council. He said that the city was not interested in leasing property for a private hangar, so just drop it. Hmmm... there's no mention of a council vote and, in fact, nothing in the minutes of even a discussion about it.

The FAA told him a different tune: unless the city wants to give up all federal funding - oh, yeah, they can refund what they've already received - they have no choice but to lease space. It's not just a good idea, it's federal law!

After a bit more arm twisting, they caved in and signed the lease. They did force him to install a fire-supression system, though, at his expense. Bastages!

Jon B.

Mr Helix:

Bozeman is a lot like what you'll find at the Helena airport. They have a great system of private hangers and as a consequence, a lot more of the pilot esprit de corps atmosphere, whereas in GTF it's more of a business-like atmosphere. I tend to concur about the possibility of the FBO not wanting the private hangers at GTF. Would seriously dent their monthly income.

We're having an interesting battle here between the county commissioners and the chairman of the airport authority board. The county commissioners appointed a GA pilot to be on the board (the commissioners get to appoint 3 of the 7 members) but the board chairman refused to seat him claiming that the fact he is a pilot is a disqualifying conflict of interest (does that make sense anywhere?). Lawsuit has been filed, AOPA has gotten involved, etc.. Not pretty.