13 Miles one way to my Parents place at Beagle Sky Ranch. Since my dad and I are both A&P's we keep our maintenance hanger about 500 feet from mom and dads house. Our airplane / storage hanger's are across the runway from the shop, about another 500 feet. 4.8 acres on a 3200 ft. airstrip. 8 other properties are part of the entire airfield and I am trying to figure out how to get myself moved on to it myself so I don't have to drive the 26 mile round trip to work and back every day.

Brian.

Normally it is about 1 mile away.but since I am spending the winter in West Linn, OR. and my plane is in Vale, OR. it is now about 400 miles away.

Hangar? Whazzat?

But it's a little more than a mile to the airstrip. Could walk to it but I leave all the stuff in my truck.

once&futr_alaskaflyer wrote:Hangar? Whazzat?

But it's a little more than a mile to the airstrip. Could walk to it but I leave all the stuff in my truck.

For me house to hanger about 8 miles takes 15-20 min. each way -Henderson house >>>> In Triangle Airpark, AZ walk out back door 50 yards and untie airplane .

Tom in Corvalis, OR
Are you sure you cannot get a safe airstrip out of 60 acres?
It doesn't have to be flat or 2 way.
The strip we use is 1500 ft 1 way with 175 ft elevation change, plenty long for owners Cessna 310 even
with 15 knot tail wind on summer afternoons.
The next hurdle is to keep the neighbors and the county happy.
Wishing we had our own airstrip!!!!! Envious of those that do.
Herman Pacer 3338Z Coquille, OR

About a mile east of town next to a little state park. There is a bike trail so I can carry my E10 in a six gallon jug on the cross bar of the bike and get some exercise. I'm fortunate that I can store my farm equipment in the hanger also since it is 50 by 82.5 with a 40 by 14 bi-fold door.

Herman Pahls wrote:Tom in Corvalis, OR
Are you sure you cannot get a safe airstrip out of 60 acres?

The next hurdle is to keep the neighbors and the county happy.

Herman Pacer 3338Z Coquille, OR

The neighbors are the key to a strip on our property. An airstrip requires a conditional use permit, and you pay for the hearing win or loose. Unfortunately, our neighbors have been very uncooperative on some other dealings with the county, and I'm quite sure they would fight this. The least disturbing orientation to the neighbors would create a one way strip, 600 feet long, that would run under powerlines at midfield. Oh yeah, it would be cross wind to the prevailing winds. Yuck.

tom

Some pictures of our hanger build.....about 1000 feet from the house. The small hanger next to it has been converted to store our other toys....


Pad....70 X 90


Front...the door has been completed since this pic was taken


Floor, yes it rotates....have 4 airplanes on it right now.....

Brian.

Brian - Steve's Aircraft wrote:Some pictures of our hanger build.....
Floor, yes it rotates....have 4 airplanes on it right now.....

Brian.

That's really cool! I don't think I've ever seen a rotating floor in a hangar.

Okay, so to get your airplane you walk up to the hanger, put a dollar in the slot, select "A2", the floor rotates and your airplane drops out the door? Cool!

After two years of extraordinary effort to establish an acceptable foundation out here in the middle of the Wrangell Mountains, my son and I finally went "vertical" with our Husky hangar. As you can see from the picture below, the hangar is about 300 feet from our front door. I took this picture from the air when heading back to Palmer yesterday. We had just finished putting up the rear wall siding, and though there wasn't much snow, the temperature was -12F.

Nizina wrote:After two years of extraordinary effort to establish an acceptable foundation out here in the middle of the Wrangell Mountains, my son and I finally went "vertical" with our Husky hangar. As you can see from the picture below, the hangar is about 300 feet from our front door. I took this picture from the air when heading back to Palmer yesterday. We had just finished putting up the rear wall siding, and though there wasn't much snow, the temperature was -12F.

Unless something is wrong with my computer, I don't see a picture.

Hmmm. Maybe Zane needs to input here. It comes up fine on my computer. It is possible that the picture is a high resolution and your server is not fast. If that is the case, it may take a little bit of time for the picture to down load to your computer. MYTCW.

Actually I think hotlinking is disallowed by the flyhusky.com vbulletin software. The reason it shows up for you is because either 1) you must be logged into flyhusky.com forum, or 2) you have the image cached from when you viewed it on an allowed domain (flyhusky.com)

Zane

I suspect that you are right. However, while I can upload a picture to the backcountry library, I cannot post it to a thread without coming up with the following error message:

"It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image."

I've tried to post using different photo sizes and quality.

I'm using a new MAC computer and wonder if that might be part of the problem (iphoto).

Please share what it takes to politically get your own hanger that you can walk to besides money.
How rural and sparsely populated does your neighborhood have to be to consider developing your own strip?
Are we pretty much limited to grandfathered strips or need hundreds of acres in eastern OR, WA, etc. ?
Thanks Herman

Zane

Well, I tried it again, and it uploaded just fine.

Herman Pahls wrote:Please share what it takes to politically get your own hanger that you can walk to besides money.
How rural and sparsely populated does your neighborhood have to be to consider developing your own strip?
Are we pretty much limited to grandfathered strips or need hundreds of acres in eastern OR, WA, etc. ?
Thanks Herman

Where's Buzzlatka? He seems to have a private strip shoehorned into a pretty populated area, and not overly large, that he recently developed.

-DP

denalipilot wrote:

Herman Pahls wrote:Please share what it takes to politically get your own hanger that you can walk to besides money.
How rural and sparsely populated does your neighborhood have to be to consider developing your own strip?
Are we pretty much limited to grandfathered strips or need hundreds of acres in eastern OR, WA, etc. ?
Thanks Herman

Where's Buzzlatka? He seems to have a private strip shoehorned into a pretty populated area, and not overly large, that he recently developed.

-DP

Up there by Notelling Creek?

80ft from the end of the house garage to the front door of the hangar. My wife gave up part of the yard but got back a way to visit the kids in an hour by air vs. three by car. I keep telling her what a great deal she made. We taxi through the driveway to the township gravel road or when the wind is north/south we use the dirt road or adjacent CRP grass if its muddy.