A Brief Introduction to Aircraft Hangar Doors
Prefabricated aircraft hangars can support a wide variety of doors systems. Your choice of door depends primarily on the size of your your aircraft and location of the openings. The type of door you choose can have significant structural consequences for your hangar. Here are a few doors available for aircraft hangars, Sliding Doors: These doors are on rollers which follows a track, including both crossover, and outrigger. They are simple and easy to install, cost-effective, sturdy and simple to clean. They do have some drawbacks. For instants, sliding doors are usually manual and require strength, and the tracks can become jammed and must be cleaned regularly. Self-Supported Hydraulic Door System: Self-supported hydraulic doors have an all steel frame construction and are engineered to your building code. Bottom of the door jamb is anchor bolted to the finished floor and the top of the door jamb is braced back to the aircraft hangar. As a result, the doo...