The queen needs a palace and fortunately a few acres with a rotten hangar barn came up for sale on my home strip. NC30 is 2000 feet of heaven in central NC. It is surrounded by private farm strips and can fly all year. Follow along as I polish this 80 year old turd. Construction costs make it worthwhile to pour some love into this termite colony. Please give advice on what you love you have in your hangar or wish you had. The idea is of course a hangar, but also to finish a side area into a living space, event venue, escape from suburbia, etc.


Chasing leaks which will never end

Here she is

Damn termites

Closing day!


Mama's not interested unless there is a bathroom so well drilling day


Prepping for concrete

Wow, that's fantastic. Congratulations, living the dream there bud!

Beautiful hangar! Congrats are definitely the theme of the moment.

Now that's a "barn find", very nice love the old school hanger look.

Man, that IS pretty exciting! Most of us have probably dreamed of finding something like this!

So, call an exterminator, kick some termite ass, and by all means, keep us posted on progress! And good for you drilling a well FIRST! If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. Good strategy!

MTV

Awesome!! It's a lot of work but definitely worth it in the end. Looks like a great place.

I started out by buying an old homestead surrounded by state forest. Tore down old buildings, built a hangar, carved a 1,000 strip out of the woods, and now the final touches are building a log house. My wife's military service only allowed me to be home a few months every summer so it was a very long time to get much done. I guess I would have been done a long time ago if I would have hired someone else to do it, but have done 99% of it myself. Has saved me well over a $100K at the minimum.

Fantastic!

Is it possible to increase the height of your opening? That might be something to consider. Also, if you can double or triple up or somehow reinforce a truss about a third of the way back from the opening sufficiently enough to hoist an airplane would be good. Makes tire, engine changes, landing gear work and so on so much easier. For those building a hangar this is something to consider, not too expensive when building but more difficult to add later.

Congratulations on the new hangar, you are living the dream!

Kurt

G44 wrote:.....Is it possible to increase the height of your opening? That might be something to consider.....

That low opening is the first thing I noticed.
You don't wanna whack your 3 blade prop on it in a moment of inattention.
Looks like the existing opening is a couple feet below the bottom of the trusses, shouldn't be too hard to raise it up.
Otherwise, your hangar looks & sounds awesome! Living the dream!

Congrats! That is so cool and as others have mentioned - if you can raise the height of the door header - but still that looks like a dream location.

Congrats! Living on an airport really is the dream! Having a hangar to put the plane in is even better. Mine is always full of customer planes so mine gets parked outside...

Very perceptive of you. Yes the bottom 3 feet are not structural and are history as soon as the door frame is reinforced. It will be a 12 foot stack door.

G44 wrote:Fantastic!

Is it possible to increase the height of your opening? That might be something to consider. Also, if you can double or triple up or somehow reinforce a truss about a third of the way back from the opening sufficiently enough to hoist an airplane would be good. Makes tire, engine changes, landing gear work and so on so much easier. For those building a hangar this is something to consider, not too expensive when building but more difficult to add later.

Congratulations on the new hangar, you are living the dream!

Kurt

Great idea Kurt. I have actually been struggling with jacking the plane as it has the speed kit but does have rings for lifting. Probably cheaper than a big bulky crane.

Updates amigo!! Updates!!!

Concrete time!
Going through all the options on coating. Want something cheap that won't soak oil or be disolved by gas. May go with plain urethane



The poor evicted previous tenants cuddling to stay warm in a neighboring shelter. Bonus points if you know what the middle plane is

Before picture of depressing office space

after some new LPV flooring and gutting the walls. That's the temporary bathroom



My little helper on the roof and grandpa's 182 Q

frstnflt wrote:The poor evicted previous tenants cuddling to stay warm in a neighboring shelter. Bonus points if you know what the middle plane is

Hard to tell but my guess is an Aeronca Defender.

robw56 wrote:

frstnflt wrote:The poor evicted previous tenants cuddling to stay warm in a neighboring shelter. Bonus points if you know what the middle plane is

Hard to tell but my guess is an Aeronca Defender.

Guess again, someone here knows

Cessna 120/140 and a J-3 Cub

MTV

What was going to be my hangar collapsed from snow. So I rebuilt it from the ground up. 40x40. I'm going to build my own hydraulic door. This summer I'll have the floor re-paved.

The poor evicted previous tenants cuddling to stay warm in a neighboring shelter. Bonus points if you know what the middle plane is

Pietenpol?

mtv wrote:Cessna 120/140 and a J-3 Cub

MTV

nope, the middle plane. Even the omniscient MTV is stumped. not pietenpol either