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Large Aircraft Hangars
These are just a few examples of many
hangars which we have designed and made during the
last 80 years.
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Rizon Jet, Biggin Hill
REIDsteel have recently completed work on the new Rizon Jet MRO hangar and fixed base operation (FBO) at Biggin Hill Airport, London. The contemporary and stylish aircraft terminal is now the Rizon Jet European Base, and covers a total area of 13,000m2.
Rizon Jet's stunning new two-level FBO / VIP Terminal has been designed to cater for an international clientele mainly from Europe and the Middle East. The ground floor level features five open seating areas and the mezzanine floor offers enclosed lounge areas with two private lounges for clients as well as a crew lounge with work stations and a dedicated rest area. The FBO / VIP Terminal features REIDsteel silicone glazed curtain walling with circular and 'stadium' shaped automatic sliding doors.
The MRO hangar is equipped with a REIDsteel electrically operated hangar door, providing an entrance 59.6m wide x 10.2m high, as well as four crane beams to support two REIDsteel underslung cranes. The cranes have a span of 36.5m and a down-shop length of 88m, and are controlled by remote control.
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Helicopter Hangar for Scatsta Airport, Shetland Isles
REIDsteel completed this helicopter hangar at Scatsta Airport earlier this year. It is a 2 span propped portal framed building, 80m x 41m, with 7.5m clear height. The rear elevation has a full gable frame to permit future end extension, and the steel is hot dip galvanised.
The REIDsteel hangar door has 12 slabs on 3 tracks, giving an entrance 78m wide by 6m high. The minimum clear opening across the door width is 26m. REIDs supplied and installed system 'K' personnel doors, and a single girder overhead crane spanning 14m, with 60m travel.
5% of the roof area is polycarbonate Safespan factory sealed roof lights, to provide natural light within the hangar. |
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Lufthansa Technik Malta Triple Archspan Hangar
Lufthansa Technik is the world market leader in maintenance, repair and overhaul of commercial aircraft, their engines and components.
To further expand and develop their company, LTM chose REIDsteel to design and manufacture a new maintenance complex in Malta, with two bays in addition to current services. There are 3 hangars, in total: 2 wide body hangars 90m x 90m x 26, and 1 narrow body hangar 90m x 66m x 15m.
The hangars are REIDsteel patent Archspan frames, with REIDsteel partitioning, cladding, wall vents, insulation and gutters. We also designed and manufactured the 332 tonne hangar doors.
The narrow body hangar has a door with 6 slabs on 3 tracks, giving clear entrance of 60m wide, left, right or centre, by 15m clear height. The two higher hangars have 12 doors slabs on 3 tracks, giving an entrance up to 120m wide open left, right or centre, with 26m height overlapping on each hangar.
The new facility will be able to accommodate 2 wide-body aircraft simultaneously, as well as having a number of workshops within it. The construction of these hangars will bring value to the national economy and create hundreds of new jobs. |
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Manston Airport
This 6900 m2 Aircraft Hangar was constructed for Summit Aviation in order for them to carry out helicopter and aircraft maintenance. The main Helicopter Hangar is 52m by 115m and the reception area is 22m by 41m. The curved roof consists of standard trapezoidal cladding and the waveform roof over the reception area is in colour matched aluminium standing seam.
The wall cladding is a mixture of box profile double skin and microrib profile composite panels in Sargasso Blue and Metallic Silver. Access and Hangar doors are by REIDsteel and Crawford UK and the Main Contractor is GSE Design and Build. |
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Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates
This 132 metre wide hangar for Emirate Airlines with a clear
entry height of 20 metres and two 66 metre spans, was designed
to take 2 Airbus A320-200 jets. The steelwork was designed, fabricated and shipped by us in 8
weeks and erected by local engineers in record time. The Main Contractor was Dutco Balfour Beatty.
We also designed, made and
shipped the 1300 tonne structure for the Air Cargo Terminal in
12 weeks which was also erected in record time. |
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British Aerospace, Hatfield
With an 80 metre span and an overall height of 20 metres
allowing 13.5 metres clearance, this was
not just another shed for aeroplanes. It was part of a precision
built complex for fitting out BAE 146 'Whispering Jet' Airliners
and contains sophisticated equipment such as four 3.2 tonne
overhead travelling cranes with rails levelled by laser beam to
fine limits.
A constant temperature heating plant and a fire
protection system were built in. The structure also incorporates
a structurally independent Annexe with design and administrative
offices and stores.
The electrically operated doors, with
built-in personnel doors and patent glazing, are fully
insulated, and have anemometer controlled cut outs to prevent
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Bournemouth International Airport
This 85 metres clear span hangar, which has a clear tailgate
entry height of 19.8 metres and a clear mid height inside of 24
metres, is big enough to take most aircraft flying today. The
hangar was designed, fabricated and erected by us. We also did
all the civils work, including foundations, floor slabs and
apron.
It is used by FR Aviation in association with sister company,
Flight Refueling Ltd, who pioneered inflight refueling, to
convert big commercial jets into fuel carrying tankers.
The aircraft in this photograph is an RAF
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Manchester
International Airport
This 85 metres clear span hangar for Monarch Aircraft
Engineering, is for maintenance of airliners up to jumbo size.
We did the steelwork design, fabrication, erection and cladding
of the hangar and its electrically operated doors and the two
storey office at the side, as well as making and fitting the
double glazed aluminium windows in the offices and main doors.
The cladding of the doors, roof and
walls is double-skinned and insulated. Note the high proportion
of natural daylight from the double skinned translucent panels in the roof and walls.
The aircraft in the bottom picture is a wide bodied DC
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Shannon Airport,
Eire
76 metre span maintenance Hangar, for UPS.
Courier Services, Shannon Airport, Co Clare, Eire.
This 5700m2 aircraft maintenance Hangar built for Aer Rianta to keep the world renowned UPS Courier Services airborne and carrying cargo to the four corners of the globe, proved to be quite a challenge to our erection team.
In this instance the customer specified the use of lifting fabric doors, which were supplied by Megadoor. They are 76m wide and 20m high and required our team of designers, draughtsmen, fabricators and erectors to work very closely with the fabric door supplier.
The contractor who did all the site civil work was the Limerick branch of John Sisk & Son Ltd, whose head office is in Dublin.
We also did the structure for the administration building on the side
of the hangar, including all the curtain walling, windows, glazing & entrance doors.
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