hangar
Let an agent handle hangars by type, location, operator, design, safety and heritage.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle hangars by type, location, operator, design, safety and heritage.
A large building for housing, maintaining and repairing aircraft, and by extension airships and spacecraft, such as maintenance hangars, airship sheds and orbiter processing facilities, typically with wide doors, high clear spans and fire protection systems.
What it is for: Sheltering and maintaining aircraft and spacecraft.
It can be identify hangar types and uses; find design and fire safety requirements; find historic hangars and museums; understand access and security rules.
Distinguishing features
Houses aircraft
Wide clear spans
Special fire protection
Located at airfields
What it looks like
Very large buildings with wide doors, long-span roofs and aircraft inside.
How it is recognised
Wide sliding doors
Long clear-span structures
Terminals serve passengers, not aircraft maintenance
Related models
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In practice
Families and kinds
maintenance hangars
storage hangars
airship hangars
underground and hardened hangars (historical)
spacecraft processing facilities
Standards and regulation
NFPA 409 standard on aircraft hangars
Aviation maintenance regulations
Building and fire codes
Failure modes and hazards
Fuel fires
Falls from height during maintenance
Structural issues in historic hangars
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Type Which hangar.
Uses differ.
Identify
Use and owner.
Identify
Hangar type.
- What type of hangar is this, and who operates it? provenance
- Which aircraft does it serve? provenance
Design
Structure.
Design
Design.
- What span, height and door design does the hangar need? measurement
- Which structural system is used? definition
Safety Fire and work.
Hangars carry hazards.
Fire
Fire protection.
Fire
Fire protection.
- Which fire protection system does the standard require for this hangar group? provenance
- How is foam suppression tested? provenance
Work
Maintenance safety.
Work
Maintenance safety.
- Which fall protection and fuel safety rules apply to work in the hangar? provenance
- Is there an injury or fire now requiring emergency services? boundary
Heritage Historic hangars.
Some are protected.
History
Airship sheds.
History
History.
- What is the history of this hangar, according to heritage sources? provenance
- Is it listed? provenance
Museum
Visiting.
Museum
Museums.
- Which aviation museums occupy historic hangars? provenance
- When are they open? provenance
Access Security.
Airside is restricted.
Security
Airside access.
Security
Security.
- What security rules restrict access to hangars at airports? provenance
- How are visits arranged? action
Limits
Military sites.
Limits
Military sites.
- Does the request seek details of military installations? boundary
- How should the agent keep to public heritage information? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should hangar types be separate entries?
- How should historic hangars be linked?
- How should military sites be excluded?