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Thoughts on being temporarily booted out of my hangar
BY MIKE BUSCH

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FROM THE TIME I FIRST ACQUIRED my
Cessna 310 in 1987, it has been hangared
at Santa Maria Public Airport (SMX) in
California. Initially, I kept it in a large community hangar. Then in 2003, after a long
wait on the airport hangar list, I was able to
secure a hangar of my own from the airport.
My hangar is 40 feet wide and 30 feet
deep. It easily accommodates my Cessna 310
with lots of room to spare. There's space for
my workbench, my toolbox, a large couch,
refrigerator, microwave, and two large shelving units where I keep spare parts, hardware,
chemicals, and such. It's not quite as
comfortable as some of my neighbors' hangars-no carpeting, Wi-Fi, or large-screen
TV-but it has been a great place to store and
work on my airplane over the past 16 years.
At first my rent for this nice big hangar
was $461 per month. Over the 16 years I've
occupied it, the rent has gradually increased
to its present $692 per month. Still, as

hangar rents go, I consider it to be a great
deal. If I were based near Los Angeles or San
Francisco or any other major metropolitan
area, the rent on a hangar like this would be
much higher, if I could find one at all. So, I
considered myself lucky. Until now.
Upon returning home from my annual
pilgrimage to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh,
I discovered an envelope in the mail from
the Santa Maria airport whose contents
informed me of a "Taxilane Pavement
Rehabilitation" project that would affect airport operations for about a month and a half.
Turns out the term "taxilane" refers to the
asphalt pavement that separates each row
of hangars from the adjacent row, and upon
which airplanes taxi to reach their hangars.
Now, I never thought there was anything wrong with the taxilane in front of
my hangar, but apparently the airport powers-that-be did. The taxilane would be torn
up for 18 days, denying access to my hangar
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