FBOs
Hangar Management Systems Aim To Improve FBO Operations
New systems offer potential safety and economic benefits
Fyve By's Sky View uses lidar to track movement in a hangar
Among the new hangar management technology systems under development is Fyve By's Sky View, which uses lidar sensors to track movement in hangars and warn line service technicians when moved aircraft are in danger of encroaching on other aircraft, equipment, or the hangar walls.

For FBOs and other hangar keepers, new suites of technologies are being developed to help increase safety and logistics. Known as hangar management systems, the functionality of these emerging products ranges from reducing the potential for hangar rash to providing exact aircraft occupancy levels to increase revenue.

One of the newest—Sky View by Georgia-based Fyve By—is wrapping up a year-long beta test program involving 11 hangars operated by FBOs, MROs, and corporate flight departments dealing with “about a quarter billion dollars worth of airplanes,” according to company co-founder and CEO Benjamin Youngstrom.