Fire Safe Hangar Space [FREE COURSE]

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What do you need to know about aircraft hangars?

Aviation facilities come with their own unique challenges, fire protection requirements, and construction guidelines. This course walks you through each of these and will enable you to:

• understand and identify the protection, construction, and maintenance requirements for aircraft hangars.
• practically apply codes, standards, and fire protection/life safety requirements
• implement a plan of action to ensure facility compliance

The course content is built specifically for fire inspectors, code officials, life safety consultants, facility managers, and airport operators.

This course provides many FREE resources and templates, including the NFPA 409 - Resource Guide.

Course Objectives:

1. Understand the fire protection requirements for aircraft hangars
2. Properly apply fire protection/life safety codes to an aviation facility
   
3. Create a plan to maintain compliance

Specifying Hangar Doors

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"When the doors need to open, it helps to have the right doors in place." 

When specifying a hangar door there will be a multitude of items to consider.  Our article, "Open Sesame", published in the October 2015 edition of Airport Business, provides a guide to making good hangar door decisions.  The article includes:

• An overview and description of the most common types of hangar doors.
• Installation and maintenance costs associated with each type of door.
• Fire code requirements for each classification of hangar and door type.

Click here to read this article at Aviation Pros

Guide to Hangar Classifications

When working in any aircraft hangar project, the first step is to determine the hangar classification. NFPA 409 classifies hangars as groups: Group I, II, III, or IV. 

This presentation identifies and defines each hangar group.

Related posts:

• NFPA and Aircraft Hangars
• Aircraft Facility Fire Codes Index
• How to Conduct Aircraft Fuel Servicing Operations
• NFPA 409 - Resource Guide
• High-Cost of a Hangar System Discharge