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Hangar Door Case Studies

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• Doors and Extensions for existing Hangars
   
• Doors for 76 metre span Maintenance Hangar, for UPS Courier Services, Shannon Airport, Co Clare, Eire
    
• The Future - Clear span Hangars 2km long by 100m wide?

Doors and Extensions for existing Hangars 

Your company has grown, you need to spread your wings and accommodate larger aircraft. We can help you, at a fraction of the cost of a new hangar. 

Many of our customers have come to us in this predicament. They cannot afford the time factor involved, nor the capital expenditure that a new hangar would entail.

A start is made on the renovation of existing T2 Hangar.

We have the answer, depending on your end requirement. In the case shown in the photographs, the customer wanted to increase the whole package on offer to his customers, including aircraft size, VIP lounge and reception, catering, conference facilities, and even crew rest accommodation.

The completed Hangar, for Inflite London Stansted Airport.

The solution our Designers arrived at was really quite simple: they increased the size of the existing hangar at one end by building a steel frame, including door track, over the top, allowing the customer to continue working with the minimum disruption.

A new frame, including door track, is in position, awaiting cladding. When completed, the existing Hangar can be connected in the dry to the refurbished area.

This 5700m² aircraft maintenance Hangar built for Aer Rianta to keep the world renowned UPS Courier Services airborne and carrying cargo to the four corners of the globe, proved to be quite a challenge to our erection team.

In this instance the customer specified the use of lifting fabric doors, which were supplied by Megadoor, with whom we have an association. They are 76m wide and 20m high and required our team of designers, draughtsmen, fabricators and erectors to work very closely with the fabric door supplier.

Note that safety rails all around the roof edge.

The Future - Clear span Hangars 2km long by 100m wide?

One of the most important requirements for a large aircraft hangar is that it should have the widest possible door opening so as to be able to accommodate the biggest aircraft flying or a mixture of many types, large or small, whose comings and goings will not be restricted by widths of door openings, or by having to manoeuvre past other aircraft.

After many years of research we have now designed a hangar whose clear doorway opening can be the entire width of the hangar, whatever its span. For instance, an entrance could be 100 metres or 500 metres, or more without intermediate support columns. This is achieved with a special steel structure and frontal lattice beam.

The design places the highest part of the hangar just where it needs to be - at the front - to accommodate the tail section inside the hangar, without the need for a special tailgate door.

The electrically controlled individually operated doors roll on bottom rails. At the top, vertical rollers operate within precision made guide channels, so that any single door or number of doors can be moved to any part of the ground track and if necessary onto outriggers.

The design allows large areas of workshop and office space at the rear inside the hangar, where the wings do not intrude. Foundations are reduced to a minimum. 

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