Re: Transporting a Onex to the airport?
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 11:56 am
BK9977 wrote:First, I have a really nice hangar that I dont even pay half of 3K a year, and I am on an expensive rent field, and one of the higher priced hangars there. The field I want to be at is less than a grand a year, tie down spots are really low cost...
As for transporting it. I still say it is not going to take off like everyone thinks. Having to load, then drive to the airport, try to find access (around here anything with a decent runway is fenced and gated) then you have to find somewhere to park the trailer at the airport that is out of the way, then unload, then preflight and fly. Land, fold everything up, re-load and drive back home and then if you want it in the garage out of the weather unload again...Not to mention if you need the extended tips it won't even fit in a std garage anyway. Plus you have to worry about dings from rocks and other road debris. Up here in Wisconsin no way I would take it on an open trailer with all the salt spraying up off the road in the winter months. We have salt from Nov until March. So that would eliminate 4-5 months of flying...Also you cant haul it at highway speeds on an open trailer. I guess if you want to make a custom enclosed trailer that it will fit in to avoid those problems it is going to cost a lot, I will stick with the sonex and a hangar.
The transportability of the Onex was one reason (of several) for me to purchase a Onex kit. I see it more as a season thing, the same as with boats. In the winter I can just roll it onto a trailer and bring it home for fixing and modifications. Then in the spring, I can bring it to an airfield. The foldable wings makes hangar rent that much cheaper, but maybe more important; much easier to find, and it takes less than a minute to fold/unfold so that is a no issue. A small tent is really all that is needed.