Originally Posted by
cub builder
If the municipality owns the land and the hangar owner is paying a lease for the land, the municipality can put all kinds of limitations and requirements on that lease. Having watched a number of aircraft sit on the ramp and rot into the ground and others sitting in hangars that haven't moved in years, and yet other "builders" who's projects haven't seen a rivet driven in years, it really galls me to say so, but I have to agree with the municipalities on this one. If you don't like their method for verifying progress, educate them a bit about how one would demonstrate progress. More than likely they will change the wording of the lease to be more agreeable. The airport owners have a vested interest in seeing that it is used as an airport rather than a derelict bone yard. The only way to do that is to put limitations on storage of unairworthy projects in the hangars.