FHC expanding @ KPAE

The Inspector · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:14 am

Flying Heritage Collection announced plans today to begin an expansion of the facility by adding another 26000 sq. ft hanger on the Northwest corner of the existing 51000 sq ft hanger. Construction begins this Friday, Aug. 3rd and should be ready for the public by this coming Spring.

The new building will take crowding pressure off the original facility and allow for addition of new exhibits in the future. The new facility will take over old ramp space used by the Airport to store mowing machinery and supplies.

Cory Graff, collection curator is enthused as the new building will have a small theater, another gift shop and additional rest rooms, 'it will have a technology theme, it will be less about the war and more about the development of aircraft'.

WallyB · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:39 am

Boeing will have to find somewhere else to park all those homeless 787s then

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Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:47 am

Im excited / curious to see to see what the development plans an artists renditions will look like.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:49 am

Ask and ye shall find by yourself. http://www.orarchitects.com/FHC.html

seabee1526 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:18 pm **Posts:** 459

Bravo Zulu FHC....very good news indeed. It's very nice to see an organization actually moving forward.

Iam Grounded · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:05 pm

The Flying Heritage Collection has outgrown its wonderful old arched hanger which has been displaying 14 restored aircraft plus two tanks and an 88mm Flak 37. Planes which were previously on display and relegated to off-site storage included the Mig 29, Storch, Jenny, and Hellcat which is under restoration in house.

Here is the news source:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/201207 ... 9/0/blog31

Rumor has it that a few unrestored aircraft may be transferred from storage to the new facility next Spring.

Travisd80elcam · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:40 pm

this is great news for the FHC.

from the artist's website linked in earlier post. it looks like they even have plans for another addition as well. that's great to see. I wonder if the B-17 will show up once they have space.

travis

The Inspector · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:57 pm

Actually the mod line parking for the early 787's has pretty much been trimmed down to a single rank parked on a disused taxiway as the airframes cycle through what used to be BADWRENCH Hanger 3 just South across 111th from Bldg 207 the FHC location. If you GOOGLE IMAGE Paine Field, the new building is going on empty ramp space sort of Northwest of Bldg 207 but joined @ the one corner abutting the N/S access road that leads to the 262 project and the new Firehouse off of 111th. That entire area was declared as 'non aircraft activity' years ago so other than transit or R.O.N. no permanent parking of aircraft takes place on that patch of the old ramp.
Boeing will turn Hgr 3 into the KC-46 completion location since they no longer operate from Wichita.

I like the inclusion of my favorite airliner to work on, an MD-80 in the artists rendition even if ASA no longer operates them.

12XU2A3X3 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:41 pm

Warbird Kid wrote:

Ask and ye shall find by yourself. http://www.orarchitects.com/FHC.html

says it's enough for them to maintain 20 aircraft. do that mean they are done with new restorations?

The Inspector · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:51 pm

Not by any stretch of the imagination, there are several tall, large green hangers on the SW corner of KAWO that hold over a century of projects to be completed including a few 'last one of's'. (No info as to what, but did you ever expect to see a flying Il-2 in the states?)

There is still vacant ramp room surrounding the FHC and possibly ATS Hgr 2 (125000 sq ft) if they decide to bail out of the airframe side of the MRO business.

Zac Yates · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:29 pm

Excellent, somewhere for the Stuka

I will watch developments with great interest.

12XU2A3X3 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:18 pm

I'm sorry i mis-spoke. what i had intended to say was, since there is a finite amount of space, will aircraft go into storage or will the facility continue to expand as no projects, Ju-87, He-111, Mossie, et al. come on line. more of an idle question i suppose.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:31 pm

Based on previous actions, no one - even they have no idea nor will they say.
Churchill was speaking about FHC not the Russians in the 'enigma wrapped in a mystery' quote.

alang · **Joined:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:08 pm **Posts:** 87

I was there today and there is a fence around the area for the new building and the concrete has been cut for the foundation area. Across the street just to the west of the ATS hangars the old Army buildings have been torn down and the land is being leveled for the new parking lot addition. It won't be long they are making progress.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:17 pm

Those WW2 era buildings were the Enlisted Chow Hall and EMC facilities. The last 15 or so years they've been used by the Snohomish County Sheriffs Dept as a place to hide out and avoid being on the county streets 'I'm doing reports, I'll call you back in a few minutes and you tell me if the bad guys have stopped shooting' which is one reason why my neighborhood voted to be incorporated into the City of Everett, you'd call the S.O. and they'd NEVER show up.
Wonder where their new 'hidey hole' is located?
It's a shame if they didn't recycle that 70 year old, dead on dimensional straight grained fir lumber, talk about a drop dead plank floor for the living room.

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