George,
I admit to being an historian and a patriot and a devourer of books and as such I had several synapses make contact with your statement that spending the night in your hanger must be a violation of some rule. That statement goes right to the heart of the problem in this day and age that is ruining the country. In the 1920s, Pres. Herbert Hoover wrote a book in which he made numerous predictions, all of which had come true by the time I read the book around 1980. The only prediction that wasn't immediately apparent as having come true was the statement that he made that America would end up a fascist state. I thought he had missed that one prediction out of the many he made until I went to the Webster's unabridged dictionary. It's definition of fascism: Control of the people through taxation and regulation. Over a period of days I contemplated what job or profession could you have in this country that did not require either you or the person you worked for to have a license. I never thought of any. That's why I would not be surprised that having a cot in your hangar would be illegal. A simple thing that disturbs no one except some overreaching bureaucrat. Due to our founders and the great American spirit, we have had it very good in this country for a very long time. Two or three consecutive generations who were able to live without great personal fear is all that is necessary to lose the American spirit. In fact, Thomas Jefferson stated that "A democracy is never more than one generation away from tyranny." This allows gradualism to erode our rights because we put up with such seemingly insignificant rules such as not being able to spend the night in your hangar to avoid a seven hour round-trip. And tomorrow we put up with yet another seemingly insignificant rule. Then the next generation comes on scene thinking that this is the way it has always been. Then they allow a few more innocuous rules. I recall a statement that I read way back in the 1980s: "If you think we have it good today in this country, consider how good it would be if we still had the 93% of our rights that have been taken away from us." With consideration of the above, then contemplating the possible illegality of spending the night in your own hanger seems to have a much greater significance than mere inconvenience.
Louie