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US 6,279,855 B1Granted
Aircraft terminal/hangar facility
AssigneeRifton Enterprises, Inc.
InventorChristian Domer
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Abstract
An aircraft terminal/hangar facility having the passenger areas and maintenance/hangar areas located in the same building such that the two area are separate but adjoining and transverse with respect to each other.
Claims13
An airport building comprising:
- a passenger area comprising a passageway, the passageway defining a first horizontal axis;
- and
- an aircraft maintenance and storage area for maintaining and storing aircraft adjoining the passenger area, the aircraft maintenance and storage area comprising at least one hangar, the hangar having a portal on a far end of the hangar with respect to the first axis, and defining a second horizontal axis, such that the first axis is transverse to the second axis.
An airport building comprising:
- at least two hangars, each hanger having a portal on one side of the hangar, each portal providing access to aircraft from a respective apron outside the airport building into the respective hangar;
- a hangar support area located between the respective hangars, the hangar support area providing servicing equipment for servicing aircraft in each of the respective hangars;
- a first pedestrian area located adjacent each respective hangar on a first side of the hangar support area, the first pedestrian area having a pedestrian portal for providing access for pedestrians to the first pedestrian area from outside the airport building;
- a passageway connected at a first end to the first pedestrian area;
- the passageway providing a bypass of the hangar support area for pedestrians;
- a second pedestrian area located adjacent each respective hangar on a second side of the hangar support area;
- the second pedestrian area connected to a second end of the passageway and adjacent a first apron on one side of the airport building;
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- such that each hangar has a respective apron located adjacent to the first apron.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.