Another Urgent Message
to our Tenants

If you are renting/leasing hangars 1-238 you will have received a violation notice from the Upland Fire Department or nothing at all. If you have no notice in your hangar CONGRADULATIONS you are one of the few that have passed all aspects of the inspection and are free to relax and nothing else is required of you a long as you do not add or modify any electrical or structures in your hangar. If you have received a violation that reads permit electrical this means that the wiring of outlets, lights etc. are not up to code and may be dangerous. If the current electrical was in your hangar when you moved in, the airport will remove all electrical that was not originally installed in your hangar. All hangars 1-69 had one breaker box and one fourplex outlet. If your hangar has more than what was originally installed and you would like to keep what it there, you will have to obtain an electrical permit from the city of Upland. I am told that the cost of this permit is around $88.00. After you draw your current electrical diagram and bring all electrical up to code, it will have to be inspected by the city in order to receive final approval and a copy of this must be delivered to the airport office.

If you received a notice to permit structures it will probably be to your benefit have it removed. Once again if you moved into your hangar with a flight planning/office or loft the airport will assist in having it removed. The process for keeping these structures is not so easy. If you would like to try and get any loft or flight planning office area approved, you will have to get a structural and electrical engineer to inspect and approve what has been built, in addition to obtaining a building permit. This is not an easy task and will run around $1,500.00 and up to get this done depending on the complexity of what is in your hangar. If it does not pass the muster of the engineers it will also have to be removed. If you can meet all the requirements for your structure the airport office must have a copy of the permit after everything has been signed off.

If you received a general housekeeping violation, you have forgotten that the structure you are renting is first and foremost a hangar for the storage of an aircraft. If you have items stored under, around or on top of your aircraft in a manner as to restrict the removal of or easy access to your aircraft. It is time to clean up. After seeing what has been installed/stored in some of the hangars this is truly long overdue and there will be annual inspections from now on.

If you are in hangars 157-192 please make sure that the airport has a key or combo to your hangar as we will be installing individual load panels in each hangar. This is also at the suggestion of the city and will greatly enhance the safety of these hangars. After the panel is installed in your hangar you will have one(1) breaker that is rated for fifteen(15) amps only. All of these hangars are on house power and multiple hangars were on one breaker. You must not add any additional breakers or increase the size of the new 15 amp service in any way. If you did not receive a violation for electrical, the airport will attach all current installations to this new service as long as your load is 15 amps or less. If you received an electrical violation you will be given one(1) fourplex outlet only, and all new wiring must be permitted through the city of Upland (see first paragraph on procedure).

Inspections will resume on June 2nd at 8:00am to 12:00pm and will continue in sequential order every Thursday until all hangars have been inspected. Do not panic if you have structures to be removed as we all understand that this may take longer than the 30 days that has been given to comply. But you must show some sign of starting the process to remedy all violations.

This is a most frustrating and difficult time for everyone, but if we all work together we will get through this and the airport will be in a much stronger position to protect you and your assets.

Thank for your cooperation and understanding

Bob Cable

"WORLD'S LARGEST FAMILY-OWNED, PUBLIC-USE AIRPORT"