Pietenpol-List: Old Airports and lack of hangers
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:54 am
Original Posted By: greg menoche
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Old Airports and lack of hangershttp://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/I visited the above website as recommended by Mike Whaley in regard to DJ and other folks having a lack of hanger space and affordable shelter at their respective airfields. It's a really neat website, especially for anyone havingan interest in old airfields. Worth a looksie.Buying a piece of land and establishing your own "legal" landing strip is getting more difficult these days, especially along border states, because of 9-11 and people running drugs from Mexico. (My "airport" is not too far from Crawford, Texas and I bet it's impossible to establish a landing site near thePresident's ranch. And even if you did, you'd have to keep your airplane groundeda lot of the time.) I'm happy that I built my airport in 1995 when there wasn't a lot of hoops and hurdles to go through, but for many people, buildingyou own grass strip and hanger and such isn't an option.I think AOPA and EAA might be a resource for aviators in need of a shelter for their airplanes. Here in Texas, we have a few airport managers (Abilene ABIis an example) where the local airport manager doesn't give a flip about the "little guy" who owns an airplane having something less than two engines and especially something as humble as a Pietenpol. Too many airport managers have tunnel vision on big iron and they want to run-off tube and fabric flyers and old wooden airplanes from their fields. In the past, ABI had a supportive airport manager, but the trend is for new managers only to support corporate andcommercial aviation.In Texas, if an airport is getting money from the state, our Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT Aviation Division) has been very helpful in letting bozo airport managers and FBOs know they ARE NOT supposed to be renting hangers to people who want to shelter their motorhomes, boats or other non-aviationrelated items, if an aviator is in need of a space. I also think that AOPA is aggressive in this regard but I haven't seen EAA taking a lead on this, although they might be, I'm just not aware of EAA efforts to help out in this problem.Sterling BrooksEAA 695308AOPA 01014359________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:59:26 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Old Airports and lack of hangershttp://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/I visited the above website as recommended by Mike Whaley in regard to DJ and other folks having a lack of hanger space and affordable shelter at their respective airfields. It's a really neat website, especially for anyone havingan interest in old airfields. Worth a looksie.Buying a piece of land and establishing your own "legal" landing strip is getting more difficult these days, especially along border states, because of 9-11 and people running drugs from Mexico. (My "airport" is not too far from Crawford, Texas and I bet it's impossible to establish a landing site near thePresident's ranch. And even if you did, you'd have to keep your airplane groundeda lot of the time.) I'm happy that I built my airport in 1995 when there wasn't a lot of hoops and hurdles to go through, but for many people, buildingyou own grass strip and hanger and such isn't an option.I think AOPA and EAA might be a resource for aviators in need of a shelter for their airplanes. Here in Texas, we have a few airport managers (Abilene ABIis an example) where the local airport manager doesn't give a flip about the "little guy" who owns an airplane having something less than two engines and especially something as humble as a Pietenpol. Too many airport managers have tunnel vision on big iron and they want to run-off tube and fabric flyers and old wooden airplanes from their fields. In the past, ABI had a supportive airport manager, but the trend is for new managers only to support corporate andcommercial aviation.In Texas, if an airport is getting money from the state, our Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT Aviation Division) has been very helpful in letting bozo airport managers and FBOs know they ARE NOT supposed to be renting hangers to people who want to shelter their motorhomes, boats or other non-aviationrelated items, if an aviator is in need of a space. I also think that AOPA is aggressive in this regard but I haven't seen EAA taking a lead on this, although they might be, I'm just not aware of EAA efforts to help out in this problem.Sterling BrooksEAA 695308AOPA 01014359________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:59:26 -0800 (GMT-08:00)