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Hangar Use Rule Continues To Churn at FAA

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Some aircraft owners are concerned about how the FAA's proposed rule on non-aeronautical use of hangars will affect them. (Photo: Nigel Moll)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

March 18, 2015

As the FAA continues to mull the nearly 2,500 comments related to its proposed rule on the non-aeronautical use of hangars, some degree of concern about its possible ramifications has begun to set in amongst some aircraft owners. On one board, a blogger who had heard tales of a hangar being declared in violation because it contained a couch opined, “Someone in the FAA wants to get rid of little airplanes…I see this as being a way to push more of us out.”

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