AVIATION DOORS

The Future of Aviation at Lincoln North Star High School! We're thrilled to be part of the new Aviation and Technical Education Focus Program building at Lincoln North Star High School in Lincoln, Nebraska!

With 42,000 kids in the Lincoln school district, this program provides students with exposure to aeronautics and hands-on technical education. It's an exciting before and after-school program that's opening doors to future opportunities in the aviation field!

When it came time to showcase their new building and make a lasting investment in the program, they turned to Schweiss Doors for the most reliable doors on the market. We're proud to be part of this amazing venture and excited for the future of these young aviation enthusiasts!

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Bifold Doors

Nebraskaland Aviation Owner, Tye Marquardt, opted for the Schweiss lift strap system, citing its safer, quieter, and faster performance compared to older cable lift doors. He also preferred the bifold door over a hydraulic door, as its upward lift reduces the risk of accidentally hitting an aircraft parked outside the hangar - a smart choice for a busy aviation operation.

Nebraskaland Aviation is a large, busy agricultural aviation business with treats, everything from corn and soybeans to wheat and pastureland. When it came time to upgrade their operations facility, they chose six Schweiss bifold doors to get the job done right.

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Bifold Doors

Schweiss Designer Door Shines on a CEO's Backyard Hangar. When pilot Don Smith Jr. built his Pennsylvania backyard hangar, he wanted something special. So, he installed a Schweiss hangar door that opens with smooth hydraulic power.

The gabled-roof hangar mixes contemporary forms with brick, stone, and metal materials. A wall-mounted pump hides all door wiring, and light pours through the door to shine on the finished floor. The 41-foot glass hydraulic door turns the hangar into a luxury showroom for Don's plane and cars.

Don's family business, Conewago Enterprises Inc., built the sylishly designed hangar and installed the unique glass door. Whenever they had questions, the Schweiss team answered quickly to keep the project moving.

Are you dreaming of your functional storage or workspace? Comment below with what you would store behind your Schweiss Door!

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Hydraulic Doors

Near the Ohio border, Brad and Jenny are the proud owners of two exceptional buildings; a five-sided hangar and a newly constrcted home which both proudly feature Schweiss Doors. Located adjacent to the Ohio River stands Brad's hangar, recognized as the five-sided hangar. The unique hangar was the first project Brad had utilized Schweiss Doors, where he incorporated two strap latch bifold doors. Brad originally came across Schweiss Doors a few years ago at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He says he was immediately interested in the doors and was recommended to use Schweiss Doors by Chuck Wiplinger from Wipaire.

The larger door, on the front of the hangar, measures 75' wide by 18' tall. The smaller bifold found on the back of the hangar measure 50' wide by 16' tall. The Schweiss bifold doors ensure ample space for Brad's planes to maneuver in and out of the hangar safely.

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Brad Mottier Hangar

Every residence in Stellar Airpark Estate includes a hangar that is seamlessly connected to the main house. Lot 7 covers just under 20,000 square feet and features a newly built hangar house constructed by the local company Forte Homes. Forte Homes has worked with Schweiss Doors many times and utilized a strap bifold for this hangar home door.

On the back of the home, the hangar features a 60-foot wide by 17-foot tall Schweiss bifold door. The new bifold hangar door operates using advanced lift straps developed by Schweiss Doors in the early 90s. Inside the hangar door, there are six bottom-driven lift drums that open the door by neatly wrapping the strap around the drum and on top of itself. This design avoids the tangling issues commonly associated with cables. One of the many reasons that hangar homeowners choose Schweiss strap bifold doors.

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Stellar Airpark

The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is a living museum in historic Hudson Valley that showcases antique aircraft and automobiles dating all the way back to the early 1900s.

Among all the old and historic sites, something new to see are two new bifold hangar door on their round-roof maintenance hangar.

Measuring 50' wide and 30' wide and opening heights of 13', the doors make routine maintenance and repair on the classic aircraft a breeze.

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Bifold Doors

Silver Maple Construction Crafts a Historic Net-Zero Hangar for United Therapeutics, featuring 120 Ft. Hydraulic Door by Schweiss Doors. Two large Schweiss hydraulic doors, installed by Irishspan Industries, Inc., are essential to the hangar's design. “The big hangar door, 30 ft. tall by 120 ft. wide, for the Gulf Streams, the biggest door Schweiss has ever made to date, actually cantilevers out,” said Evan Herron, Project Manager at Silver Maple Construction. The larger of the two doors weighs 60,000 lbs, and the smaller door weighs 20,000 lbs.

Covering an expansive 36,000-square-foot area, the construction of every inch of this hangar, from the prefabricated exterior walls to the corrugated metal roof decking, has been designed and implemented to remarkable level of detail. These features come together to set a new standard of excellence and quality in the construction industry.

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120' Hydraulic Door

Curtis Lemieux of Prince Albert, Canada is at the helm of his successful family-owned business of Econo Lumber in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. They carry a wide variety of quality and economical building supplies, power tools and home renovation products. Since 1971, their business has undergone three major expansions growing from the original 1,130 sq. ft. to today's 40,000 sq. ft. on 10 acres.

Lemieux recently completely renovated his 70 ft. x 70 ft. hangar that is located at Prince Albert Airport Glass Field. The renovation entailed ordering two Schweiss hydraulic hangar doors. The largest of these two hydraulic doors is a 54 ft. x 16.9 ft (1,646 cm x 515 cm). It has four windows to take advantage of available light. The smaller adjacent 13.3 ft x 8.11 ft (405 cm x 247 cm) hydraulic door is used for a storage area and is where both hydraulic door pumps are also located out of view. Both doors are equipped with remote openers.

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Econo Lumber

Prime Metal Buildings & Components' new hangar exemplifies their design ingenuity and commitment to superior-quality craftsmanship. The corporate hangar features a substantial Schweiss hydraulic door, driven by an advanced hydraulic pump and cylinder system. This robust setup ensures the reliable lifting and smooth opening of the massive one-piece door, demonstrating Prime Metal Buildings & Components' dedication to functionality and efficiency in their structures.

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Hydraulic Doors

The main reason Lanz Cabinets went with a Schweiss hydraulic door was because they needed all the headroom they could get due to height restrictions on their side of the airfield because the control tower needed unobstructed line of sight. The door was the solution enabling them to build the hangar where it is. With a bifold door they would have had to build the hangar taller, resulting in higher construction costs.

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Lanz Hangar

Robert Kudrna, CEO of KAT.AT, a building contracting company, erected new rental hangars at the Weiner Neustadt Airport near Vienna, Austria using five Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors ranging in width from 63.5' to 43.4' with heights up to 23.8'. Kudrna toured the Schweiss factory while his doors were still in production. He was shown around the factory by Dave Schweiss.

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Weiner Neustadt Airport

Jim St. George has a very impressive hangar located at the Lake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage, Alaska.

The hangar has two hydraulic doors; 65' x 18.7' and 40' x 18.7' and one bifold 40' x 18' that was converted to liftstraps. The radiant heat hangar has LED lighting and all three bays within the 14,000 sq. ft. hangar are accessible to a 5-ton or 1-ton overhead crane. Uniquely designed tilted “L” shaped windows add natural light and give a distinct look to the hangar.

Hangared inside is Jim's 180 Cessna equipped with floats and ski's for all year-round use. The other two hangar bays are leased out to other pilots.

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Lake Hood Seaplane Base

Brendan McDermott, owner of Tyron Fabrication installed a 30' wide x 12' tall bifold door on his helicopter hangar! The door features the new Schweiss "Strap Latch" to lock the door in tight.

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Bifold Doors

When JT Strange of Goshen, Ohio built his new airpark hangar he called on Schweiss Doors for a bifold liftstrap door. The hangar has a big 45' x 15' 11" door for his Cessna 182T. Four liftstraps easily lift the bifold door. Interior sheeting gives the door a nice clean look. The cladding on the door is unique in that he wanted it to have a completely different look beyond the typical look of an airport hangar door.

By mounting the sheeting horizontally he was able to have the top corrugated panel of the bifold door overlap the lower panel. When you look closely at it, the two-inch pattern appears to be seamless with no joint in the middle and looks more like a single panel hydraulic door.

Another feature that sets it off from other bifold doors is the door is inset about two feet instead of installed on the face of the building. Using the specifications from Schweiss he was able to get wedge height and other information to obtain the highest clearance possible.

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JT Strange Hangar

When it came down to ordering a door for their new hangar at Ross Shaw Sterling Aviation High School in Houston, Texas, Schweiss Doors was chosen to provide a bifold liftstrap door for their new school.

There aren't many high schools in the U.S. that offer this type of education to the extent that they do to continue on to give students a chance to get flight certified.

Their new hangar is set up to hold the two aircraft. The bifold liftstrap, aluminum frame door is 49' 6" x 20' 2". The door has galvanized windrails and siderails, a keyed switch entry system, electric photo eye sensors and is windrated for 120 mph. Two rows of windows - 12 total, on each half of the door let in an ample amount of available daylight into the hangar.

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Sterling Aviation HS

David Prescott, CEO of “The Hangar at 743” and home to the Warbird Factory in Latham, NY, is passionate about and maintaining the heritage of history of WWII aircraft, and honoring our heroes and veterans. The hangar serves as a museum, showing off its collection of WWII aircraft and offering guests a close-up look at iconic warbirds like the B-25 Bomber and F4U Corsair. The hangar also transforms into a reception hall large enough to host up to 300 people.

“People rent my hangar for events and one of the great things about it is the 60' x 20' Schweiss hydraulic door... If weather permits leaving the door open, it provides a nice awning.” explained Prescott.

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Hangar At 743

This Florida hangar home has a unique door that opens all the way up.

Schweiss Doors turned this hangar owner's dream door into a bonafide reality. Dan Shaw's unbelievable hangar home has a hydraulic door that does an incredible trick. The entire porch lifts a full 90 degreees up.

“It started with the idea that I wanted a hangar home that didn't look like a hangar. Hangars are basically ugly. We wanted to jazz ours up just a bit,” said Shaw. “When you drive up to it and push the remote button, people are absolutely amazed!”

“If you have a dream about a special building, run it by the Schweiss team. They do great stuff with doors and they're easy to work with.” - Dan Shaw, Geneva, FL.

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Shaw Porch Door

This customer wanted a large porch and walk-through door on the front of their hangar house but didn't want to lose the functionality of their hangar. As always, the ingenuity of Schweiss pulled through and delivered. With the push of a button, a seemingly simple and charming front porch turns into a fully functional hydraulic door! To see more of what Schweiss Doors has to offer you or your business.

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Hydraulic Doors

Ron Fagen's new WWII Museum in Granite Falls, MN draws crowds from all over the USA for huge air shows and live entertainment. It's nice to have a great show right in our backyard for the aviation enthusiast and general public to take part in! Schweiss provided the strap lift bifold door on the main museum structure weighing 32,000 lbs., it's built strong enough to withstand 190 mph winds.

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Fagen WWII Museum

This privately-owned helicopter hangar in rural Purcellville, VA recently received first place 2017 Building of the Year award in the category of “Commercial Buildings under 5,000 sq. ft.” The owner, Chuck Kuhn and Fuog/InterBuild designed the post-frame barn-style hangar that really stands out with a Schweiss hydraulic one-piece 55' x 16' designer door. A Stronger lift system was incorporated for the additional 7,100 pounds of wood cladding on the door. The vaulted ceiling has 1 x 6 tongue and groove woodwork. A high loft with four windows brings maximum amount of daylight into the hangar.

Garland LaRue, Project Manager for Fuog/InterBuild, Inc. said he discovered Schweiss Doors for the first time through a Schweiss Door internet search and said the hangar owner loved the hydraulic door. “I think the quality of construction of the hydraulic door is wonderful. We definitely would use it again and recommend it to others. It was also easy to install, the shipping of it and customer service was great on all points, Brent and Jeremy at Schweiss were very helpful,” said LaRue.

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Hydraulic Doors

The Carriage House on the lakeshore property of Sid Morris, Cornelius, NC is very likely the most unique in America! It doesn't house horses and horse buggies. It doesn't house antique autos. Instead it houses his R44 helicopter, and that chopper gets to the Carriage House by first landing on a helipad on the end of his 200' dock. A small electrically driven dolly then gently lifts the chopper with operator and guides the chopper to its proper stall inside this remarkable 4-star carriage house.

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Carriage House

This unique fly-in airpark community is set between Schweitzer Ski Mountain and Lake Pend Oreille, one of the West's largest lakes in northern Idaho. The site has an exclusive prototype home for aviators and their families to see and building lots for sale.

A lot of thought went into choosing the doors for the hangar homes. Two sets of Schweiss Bifold liftstrap doors, each 45' x 14' 9" are at the model residence. The decorative cladding gives them a real designer door look. Building plans offer five residence-style hangars and two commercial-style hangars.

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SilverWing Airpark

With the decorative star and patriotic blue front it has all the looks of a hangar home that you might think was owned by Captain America. Jim Weitman, of Sherwood, Oregon, and his wife, Star, live on a private grass airstrip just outside of North Plains, Oregon. The hangar portion of the home measures 40' x 40'.

The Schweiss bifold liftstrap door on the hangar has a clear opening width of 38' and 9' 8.75" in height. It is also equipped with automatic latches, electric photo eye sensors and a remote opener. The blue polycarbonate cladding really brightens up the exterior of the door.

With the exterior enhancements, including a new roof, cedar siding and a colored concrete apron, they really wanted to replace the old style twin 20' metal garage hangar doors with something that really stood out and complemented their lifestyle.

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Oregon Star Hangar

'Jesse from Texas,' as he prefers to be known, is the elated owner of a Schweiss bifold liftstrap door. He and his family live in a stunning 5,000 sq. ft. hangar-home just a taxiway from the landing strip at Threshold Ranch in Boerne, Texas at the outskirts of San Antonio.

His 2,000 sq. ft. attached hangar houses his 2008 Cirrus SR22 G3 Turbo "Perspective." Jesse became familiar with Schweiss Doors during visits to the Oshkosh airshow and had seen Schweiss doors at various airports.

His hangar has a 48.7' x 12.1' custom made bifold liftstrap door complete with a remote opener, a red painted frame for a great protective look, and an autolatch and windpin setup that will keep it tight to his hangar even in the stiffest West Texas winds strong enough to make a cowboy cry.

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Texas Hangar Home