Long Beach, CA – When the California Flight Center began turning down prospective hangar tenants along with people needing maintenance work, they realized they had a problem. The two hangars they owned at Long Beach Airport simply were not sufficient to handle their needs as an FBO, sales and maintenance shop, flight training operation and hangar leasing. There was no way to increase the size of the footprints of either one of their hangars, but they could go up. Their solution was to order four Aero-Lifts from ARM Aerospace and start racking and stacking.
They put two Aero-Lifts in their maintenance facility, allowing them to hoist aircraft that are waiting for parts while providing more room for working on the aircraft that dont have to sit idle for want of new components. The other two Aero-Lifts went into their tenant hangar, allowing them to immediately increase the number of aircraft from 4 to 6.
"Without pounding a single nail, we effectively increased our usable hangar space by 30%," said Keith Furlong, President of California Flight Center. "Fortunately, we had the ceiling space and wonder now why it took so long to make use of it. We've increased our hangar revenues and taken more work into the maintenance shop."
ARM Aerospace provides High Density Hangar solutions for individuals and commercial applications, dramatically increasing the number of aircraft that can be accommodated in existing hangars. The Aero-Lift can handle almost any type of single engine GA aircraft or helicopter.
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