Ceiling Hangar Lift 
Cranky Flier
JUNE 5, 2025
Jon Ostrower and I were both at the manufacturer’s media day event — ok, I was only at the first part of it — and that’s where they showed off their full-scale mock-up which sits in their hangar/headquarters in Long Beach. What’s most interesting ,however, is what it’ll look like on the inside.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Though the German Zeppelins were inflated with hydrogen, which was a more readily available and lighter lifting gas, it was flammable when mixed with oxygen, which doomed many a Zeppelin to a fiery end. Unlike their German cousins, both the USS Akron and the USS Macon were designed to have a 75-by-60-by-16-foot hangar amidships.
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Air Facts
JULY 14, 2025
Again with the engine-shutdown parking, this time very close to a hangar. A non-flying story: Just the other day we were using a hydraulic scissor lift to do some work in a hangar near the ceiling. My fellow pilot raised himself to the ceiling, but later couldn’t get the lift to come down.
Aerotime
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Across the board, growth in the aviation industry has been accompanied by the need to develop all sorts of support infrastructure, including hangars and maintenance facilities. Building a new hangar can be a lengthy process if you do it the traditional way, but Belgian firm Spantech is offering a new, more straightforward approach.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Known for its critical role in the Pacific theater, this iconic Corsair is one of the few remaining intact examples and will undergo meticulous restoration by the museum’s skilled specialists in the Aircraft Restoration Hangar. The fully restored aircraft is set to be unveiled to the public in March 2025 on the Intrepid’s hangar deck.
Flying Magazine
MAY 10, 2024
The ceiling of my home office looks like an airshow—with no fewer than five airships on display. So imagine how impressed I was by the scratch-built model of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II hanging from the ceiling of the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They range from the Graf Zeppelin to the Zeppelin NT , and are kitbuilt.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 11, 2024
Moments after climbing through the ceiling over Beverly, MA. We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. Approaching the Green Mountains of Vermont, the ceiling began to close back up. This meant that there would be no getting into Sodus unless the ceiling lifted.
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