Hello don,
we are in kind of in a transition point right now. Currently, we are in a community hanger at the airport and they pull the plane out for us which is kind of nice in a way. However, with all the new line people coming and going we are a bit worried about hangar rash and schedule flexibility as we can't even have a copy of the key for the hangar from the FBO and just want our own corporate hanger. I know this is a Tug thread, but i have included some photos of a hangar that we are closing on in 3 to 4 weeks. It has a small office and bathroom also which is pretty nice. The photos here show us testing out the hangar with the 2 commanders, as they do fit in, not a ton of room in between them as you can see, but enough to walk inbetween them. My business partner is eyeing up the space around the edges of the commanders as there is plenty of room to stack old cars around the perimeter of the hangar and underneath the commanders, so the room i am sure will get used up when done. It will be nice to have heat also in the frozen tundra up here also for the 7 months of winter we get here. Sorry about the sideways photos, i forgot to rotate them to view correctly.
Tug wise, though, maybe i could have purchased the Lektro for 12K or 15K but i can't imagine much less as they mentioned Lektro themselves would come up and pick the unit up for 15K on the spot- its a larger one i think with battery hook up also- i didn't have the exact model number though, but it was in good shape except for needing batteries as it has sat for a few years.
I pulled the trigger on the remote control T2V2 already, so hopefully i don't regret it, and that company said if i was unhappy with it, they would take it back but i would have to pay for shipping each way. If i needed to tow the aircraft over to the FBO or anywhere else from our newly purchased hanger, the FBO would be glad to do that for us. I will report back once we have the unit and i get a few pulls from it, i am curious though in the middle of January with an inch of snow on the ramp if the unit will pull it out, they said it would without the spikes, but January is a long ways away (fortunately or unfortunately i guess in how you look at it)
