Large-Aircraft Hangar Shortage on Burner at TEB Meeting

Popular business aviation airports in the New York City area are currently at 150 percent of capacity.

Hangar space for large business aircraft such as the G650 is dwindling, particularly in popular markets. (Photo: Jerry Wyszatycki)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

October 5, 2015

The increasing size of high-end business jets and the shortage of hangar space in the New York metropolitan area to accommodate them revealed itself as a growing concern at a recent Aviation Professionals Sharing Information (APSI) meeting held in a hangar at Jet Aviation’s Teterboro Airport facility. Against the backdrop of a Bombardier Global, APSI president Victoria Reina-Duffy, vice president of sales for Priester Aviation, noted that popular business aviation airports in the area such as Teterboro (TEB) and Westchester County (HPN) are currently at 150 percent of capacity, with many hangars in the region unable to accommodate the newest ultra-long-range corporate jets. “I understand in other parts of the country it’s not as big an issue, but these big airplanes are coming to our part of the country,” Bill Beversluis, Jet Aviation’s vice president of aircraft management, told the gathering.

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