gfry wrote:In my mind hangar security needs to be increased. People are paying a few grand a year to keep their pride and joy in a glorified shed. They should at least be some for of security beyond a cheapo pad lock, things like CCTV, an alarm, better more fortified perimeter gates..... or maybe all of those measures.
Not disagreeing at all, but another way of looking at it might be:
Put their pride and joy at a location where all of those things are in place - and accept that everything has a price.
My 60ft*40ft hangar is purpose designed and was built 5 years ago. It currently houses my own aircraft plus those of a couple of local owners - it is behind a security automated gate, is alarmed, does have security lights and does has people living on the premises. etc. etc.
Hangarage charges here are therefore not the cheapest in the area - even then the income from the two aircraft hangared here only just about covers the Hangar Keeper's and Airfield operator's liability insurance and some diesel/maintenance costs for the mower tractor (but I am not worried about that as it is not operated for profit and I see whatever income arrives as a contribution towards costs that I incur anyway to have the airstrip and hangarage facility here for my own convenience).
We recently did a costing exercise to evaluate the viability of building a second hangar here and, in view of lots of teeth sucking and 'How much!' comments, quickly came to the conclusion that the local market would not stand what we would have to charge to make a sensible (any?) return on expenditure.