Airport Master Plan - City of Weslaco

hangar space. The largest of these
hangars range from 3,000 to 3,500
square feet. The remaining nine of
these larger hangars account for 24,400
square feet of available hangar space.
Together these hangars provide 52,000
square feet of storage and maintenance
space.
The executive hangar units are
typically less expensive to construct or
lease than larger conventional hangars.
Typical users of executive hangars are
aircraft owners having larger, more
sophisticated aircraft and/or own
multiple aircraft and wish for a singular
storage arrangement. These owners
prefer a larger space than provided by
individual T-Hangar units but do not
want to store their aircraft in a general
storage conventional hangar.
From the analysis in Table 3D, it
appears that the existing T-Hangar and
conventional hangar positions do not
meet current demands. The older
executive facilities may need
replacement within the future. The
replacements most likely desired will be
a mix of T-Hangar and executive
hangars. Therefore, short term facility
planning may be determined to include
all three hangar types. The additional
conventional and executive hanger
positions that are needed in the
intermediate and long terms are
indicative of the anticipated increase of
larger and more sophisticated aircraft
basing at the airport. Furthermore, the
airport should always have space
available to accommodate corporate
hangars as an attraction for new
businesses considering relocation to the
Mid Valley area.
The final step in the process of
determining hangar requirements
involves estimating the area necessary
to accommodate the required hangar
space. Future T-Hangar requirements
will use 1,200 square feet per based
aircraft to determine future storage
space requirements. A planning
standard of 2,500 square feet of space
for aircraft was then applied to the
aircraft to be hangared in conventional
and executive hangars.
Also, an area equal to 10 percent of the
total hangar space on the airport should
be allocated for maintenance shop
facilities. It is assumed that this
maintenance area would be housed in
conventional hangar space. Hangar
space requirements are presented in
Table 3D.
Current requirements to fulfill existing
needs are for 62 T-Hangar spaces. The
T-Hangar requirements then follow for
73 for the short term, 83 T-Hangar
spaces for the intermediate term, and
122 for the long term.
Requirements for the conventional
storage facilities are as shown in the
table: 26 spaces to fulfill current needs,
22 spaces needed for the short term, 25
spaces to be constructed for the mid
term planning period, and 35 spaces to
supply needs for the long term.
The need for executive hangar facilities
are projected to be 20 spaces for the
existing time frame. Needs for the short
term are 30 spaces and 37 spaces for the
intermediate term. For the long term 51
executive hangar positions will be
needed.
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