Purpose-Built Spaces for Aircraft Owners, Operators and Aviation Businesses
Latitude 98 develops, improves, and repositions aircraft hangars and aviation facilities throughout Florida.
Our focus is on creating functional, durable, and operationally efficient spaces that support aircraft storage, maintenance, flight training, aviation services, commercial activity, and long-term airport growth.
We work with airport owners, municipalities, aviation businesses, aircraft owners, investors, and development partners to evaluate new construction, redevelopment, expansion, and build-to-suit opportunities.
Aviation Facilities Designed Around Real Operations
Aviation buildings must do more than provide enclosed square footage.
They must support the safe and efficient movement of aircraft, people, equipment, vehicles, tools, parts, and fuel while complying with airport requirements, local codes, fire standards, lease restrictions, and operational procedures.
Latitude 98 evaluates each project based on:
- Aircraft type and dimensions
- Hangar door clearance
- Taxiway and ramp access
- Aircraft circulation
- Wingtip and propeller clearance
- Building setbacks
- Fire protection
- Electrical capacity
- Ventilation
- Drainage
- Security
- Vehicle parking
- Tenant operations
- Future expansion
- Storm resilience
- Long-term ownership or leasing strategy
Our goal is to develop facilities that work properly for the people and aircraft using them every day.
Aircraft Hangar Development
Latitude 98 evaluates a range of aircraft hangar projects, including:
- T-hangars
- Box hangars
- Executive hangars
- Corporate hangars
- Community hangars
- Maintenance hangars
- Multi-aircraft storage buildings
- Oversized aircraft hangars
- Hangar-and-office units
- Hangar-and-workshop units
- Owner-user aviation facilities
- Build-to-suit hangars
The appropriate hangar type depends on airport demand, available land, aircraft mix, financing, ownership structure, and the intended tenant or buyer.
T-Hangars
T-hangars can provide efficient storage for multiple general aviation aircraft within a compact building footprint.
Planning considerations may include:
- Unit width and depth
- Aircraft mix
- Door type
- Interior clearance
- Electrical service
- Shared access
- Ramp circulation
- Drainage
- Vehicle parking
- Fire separation
- Security
- Rental demand
T-hangars may be developed as rental units, condominium units, or part of a larger airport expansion.
Box and Executive Hangars
Box and executive hangars offer greater flexibility for aircraft owners who need more space, privacy, storage, or office functions.
Potential features may include:
- Clear-span interiors
- Large aircraft doors
- Multiple-aircraft capacity
- Offices
- Restrooms
- Storage rooms
- Workshops
- Climate-controlled areas
- Pilot lounges
- Vehicle access
- Enhanced electrical service
- Compressed air
- Security systems
- Private parking
Executive hangars may be leased, sold, or developed for specific aircraft owners and aviation businesses.
Corporate and Oversized Hangars
Larger aircraft and commercial aviation operations require specialized facilities.
Latitude 98 evaluates corporate and oversized hangar opportunities involving:
- Turboprops
- Business jets
- Multi-aircraft fleets
- Charter operators
- Corporate flight departments
- Aircraft-management companies
- Specialty aircraft
- Maintenance operations
- Large aircraft storage
These projects may require:
- Greater door height and width
- Increased clear-span capacity
- Heavier structural systems
- Larger apron areas
- Higher electrical loads
- Fire-suppression systems
- Office and crew space
- Passenger reception areas
- Enhanced security
- Larger vehicle-parking areas
- Specialized drainage and utility systems
Hangar Condominiums
Hangar condominiums may allow aircraft owners and businesses to purchase individual units while sharing common infrastructure and association responsibilities.
Potential projects may include:
- Individual box hangars
- Executive hangar units
- Hangar-and-office condominiums
- Hangar-and-workshop units
- Multi-aircraft units
- Secured aviation compounds
- Shared pilot amenities
Hangar condominium development requires careful coordination involving:
- Land ownership
- Airport ground leases
- Condominium documents
- Taxiway and ramp rights
- Association governance
- Common-area maintenance
- Insurance
- Utilities
- Use restrictions
- Leasing and resale rights
- Airport access
- Lease expiration and renewal rights
Latitude 98 coordinates with qualified attorneys, surveyors, engineers, airport owners, and association professionals as needed.
Aircraft Maintenance Facilities
Latitude 98 develops and evaluates facilities for general aviation maintenance and specialty aircraft services.
Potential uses may include:
- Annual and 100-hour inspections
- General aircraft maintenance
- Avionics installation and repair
- Engine work
- Sheet-metal repair
- Aircraft restoration
- Paint preparation
- Aircraft detailing
- Parts storage
- Tool and equipment storage
- Customer aircraft staging
A maintenance facility may include:
- Large clear-span hangars
- High-clearance aircraft doors
- Work bays
- Mechanic workstations
- Parts rooms
- Tool rooms
- Offices
- Customer reception
- Restrooms
- Break areas
- Compressed-air systems
- Electrical distribution
- Ventilation
- Fire protection
- Hazardous-material storage
- Wash or detailing areas
- Secure records storage
The building must be designed around the actual maintenance activities performed by the tenant or operator.
Avionics Facilities
Avionics businesses require clean, organized, secure work environments with reliable power and appropriate technical spaces.
Potential facility components may include:
- Installation hangars
- Bench-testing areas
- Electronics workrooms
- Parts storage
- Secure equipment rooms
- Aircraft staging
- Technical offices
- Customer consultation areas
- Climate-controlled workspaces
- High-quality electrical service
- Data and communications systems
- Static-control measures
- Secure records storage
Latitude 98 develops the real estate and facility component. All avionics work must be performed by appropriately qualified and authorized operators.
Flight-School Facilities
Flight-school facilities should support students, instructors, dispatch staff, aircraft, and administrative operations.
Potential features may include:
- Reception and dispatch
- Classrooms
- Briefing rooms
- Instructor offices
- Student lounges
- Simulator rooms
- Study areas
- Testing rooms
- Pilot-supply retail
- Administrative offices
- Training-aircraft hangars
- Aircraft parking
- Maintenance coordination areas
The facility should support safe movement between classrooms, dispatch areas, aircraft parking, and the active airport environment.
FBO and Pilot Facilities
Latitude 98 evaluates FBO and pilot-oriented facilities designed to improve the airport experience for local and transient users.
Potential components may include:
- Passenger reception
- Pilot lounges
- Flight-planning rooms
- Crew-rest areas
- Conference rooms
- Restrooms and showers
- Rental-car coordination
- Food and beverage areas
- Office space
- Fuel-service support
- Aircraft parking
- Outdoor gathering areas
- Event or community rooms
The appropriate size and scope depend on airport traffic, aircraft mix, operating hours, fuel demand, and tenant or operator requirements.
Aviation Commercial Space
Airport properties may support a broad range of aviation businesses.
Latitude 98 evaluates space for:
- Aircraft sales and brokerage
- Aircraft management
- Charter companies
- Aviation insurance
- Pilot supplies
- Parts distribution
- Aircraft detailing
- Drone and aerospace businesses
- Aviation offices
- Training providers
- Restaurants and hospitality
- Event and meeting uses
- Specialty service providers
Aviation commercial space may be incorporated into a standalone building, FBO facility, maintenance complex, or mixed-use aviation development.
Build-to-Suit Aviation Facilities
Latitude 98 works with aviation businesses and aircraft owners that require facilities designed around specific operational needs.
A build-to-suit project may be appropriate for:
- Maintenance providers
- Avionics shops
- Flight schools
- Charter operators
- Corporate aircraft owners
- Aircraft-management companies
- Detailing businesses
- Parts distributors
- Specialty aviation companies
- Airport service providers
The build-to-suit process may include:
- Site evaluation
- Space programming
- Conceptual design
- Cost analysis
- Lease or ownership structuring
- Airport coordination
- Engineering
- Permitting
- Construction
- Tenant improvements
- Final occupancy
Redevelopment of Existing Aviation Buildings
Existing hangars and aviation facilities may be outdated, poorly configured, damaged, underused, or no longer suitable for current aircraft and businesses.
Latitude 98 evaluates repositioning opportunities involving:
- Aging hangars
- Abandoned aviation buildings
- Former maintenance facilities
- Vacant FBO space
- Underused flight-school buildings
- Obsolete commercial structures
- Fire- or storm-damaged facilities
- Incomplete aviation developments
- Properties with deferred maintenance
- Buildings requiring code correction
Potential improvements may include:
- Structural rehabilitation
- Hangar-door replacement
- Roof replacement
- Electrical upgrades
- Fire-protection improvements
- Office reconfiguration
- New restrooms
- HVAC and ventilation
- Exterior renovation
- Ramp and access improvements
- Security systems
- Drainage correction
- New tenant improvements
Ramp, Apron and Aircraft Access
The land surrounding the facility is as important as the building itself.
Latitude 98 evaluates:
- Aircraft apron size
- Taxiway connections
- Taxilanes
- Aircraft turning radius
- Wingtip clearance
- Propeller clearance
- Tow routes
- Vehicle separation
- Run-up areas
- Loading and staging
- Drainage
- Pavement condition
- Lighting
- Markings
- Tie-down locations
- Emergency access
The layout must support safe and efficient aircraft movement without unnecessary conflicts with vehicles, pedestrians, or nearby operations.
Hangar Doors and Clearances
Hangar-door selection affects aircraft compatibility, reliability, weather protection, and long-term maintenance.
Potential door systems may include:
- Hydraulic doors
- Bifold doors
- Sliding doors
- Rolling doors
- Multi-panel systems
- Custom oversized doors
Door planning must consider:
- Clear opening width
- Clear opening height
- Structural loads
- Wind ratings
- Power requirements
- Manual backup systems
- Maintenance access
- Drainage
- Weather sealing
- Safety controls
- Aircraft tail and wing dimensions
The advertised door size should reflect the actual clear opening rather than the exterior frame dimensions.
Fire Protection and Life Safety
Aviation facilities may require specialized fire and life-safety planning.
Depending on the building size, use, aircraft fuel load, construction type, and local code, requirements may include:
- Fire sprinklers
- Foam or specialized suppression systems
- Fire alarms
- Emergency lighting
- Exit signage
- Fire-rated separation
- Occupancy limits
- Hazardous-material controls
- Ventilation
- Spill response
- Emergency vehicle access
- Extinguisher placement
- Fuel and battery charging procedures
All systems must be designed by qualified professionals and approved by the applicable authorities.
Durable Construction for Florida
Florida aviation buildings are exposed to wind, rain, heat, humidity, corrosion, and intense sunlight.
Potential design considerations may include:
- High-wind structural systems
- Reinforced wall and roof connections
- Wind-rated hangar doors
- Durable metal-building systems
- Corrosion-resistant fasteners
- Protected roof edges
- Improved drainage
- Sealed roof decks
- Impact protection for occupied areas
- Moisture-resistant materials
- Elevated electrical equipment
- Backup-power readiness
- Low-maintenance exterior finishes
No building can be guaranteed to avoid storm damage, but thoughtful design and maintenance can improve resilience.
Utilities and Building Systems
Aviation facilities may require more utility capacity than conventional storage buildings.
Depending on the use, systems may include:
- Three-phase power
- High-amperage electrical service
- Compressed air
- Water and sewer
- Floor drains where permitted
- Oil-water separation
- High-speed data
- Security and access control
- HVAC
- Ventilation
- Backup power
- EV charging
- Aircraft battery charging
- Shop equipment connections
- Exterior lighting
- Fire-protection water supply
Utility requirements should be established early in the design process to avoid costly changes.
Development and Ownership Structures
Latitude 98 evaluates several structures for hangar and aviation-facility projects, including:
- Direct ownership
- Ground lease
- Build-to-suit lease
- Long-term facility lease
- Hangar condominium
- Joint venture
- Public-private partnership
- Owner-user development
- Sale upon completion
- Long-term rental ownership
- Phased development
The appropriate structure depends on airport property rights, financing, tenant demand, construction costs, and long-term objectives.
Working With Airport Owners
Latitude 98 welcomes discussions with private airport owners, municipalities, counties, and airport authorities seeking to expand or improve aviation facilities.
Potential partnership objectives may include:
- Addressing hangar shortages
- Increasing airport revenue
- Replacing aging buildings
- Attracting aviation businesses
- Expanding maintenance capacity
- Supporting flight training
- Improving transient pilot facilities
- Redeveloping vacant airport land
- Creating owner-user hangars
- Developing hangar condominiums
Public projects and airport leases must follow applicable procurement, approval, lease, grant, and airport compliance requirements.
Working With Aircraft Owners and Aviation Businesses
We evaluate facility opportunities from:
- Individual aircraft owners
- Aircraft-owner groups
- Corporate flight departments
- Maintenance operators
- Avionics businesses
- Flight schools
- Charter companies
- Aircraft-management firms
- Detailing companies
- Parts suppliers
- Aviation investors
- Hangar associations
An owner or tenant may bring an existing airport site, a facility requirement, a lease opportunity, or a need for a development partner.
Our Hangar and Facility Development Process
1. Define the Facility Need
We identify the aircraft, business operations, required square footage, door dimensions, office needs, utilities, parking, and target completion strategy.
2. Evaluate the Site
Latitude 98 reviews airport access, land availability, lease rights, setbacks, ramp conditions, utilities, drainage, zoning, and development restrictions.
3. Complete Feasibility
We evaluate:
- Construction costs
- Site improvements
- Airport requirements
- Fire protection
- Utilities
- Demand
- Rental or sales pricing
- Financing
- Ownership structure
- Timeline
- Future expansion
4. Structure the Project
The project may proceed through a purchase, ground lease, build-to-suit agreement, joint venture, condominium structure, or public-private partnership.
5. Plan and Design
We coordinate architects, structural engineers, civil engineers, aviation consultants, airport planners, fire-protection professionals, and contractors.
6. Secure Approvals
Latitude 98 coordinates airport-owner approvals, municipal permitting, utility approvals, fire review, and other agency requirements.
7. Construct the Facility
Qualified contractors complete site work, foundations, structure, building systems, hangar doors, interiors, ramp connections, and tenant improvements.
8. Inspect and Deliver
The project proceeds through final inspections, permit closeout, systems testing, punch-list work, and tenant or owner turnover.
9. Lease, Sell or Retain
Completed facilities may be leased, sold, transferred to an owner-user, or retained as part of a long-term aviation portfolio.
Serving Florida’s Aviation Community
Latitude 98 evaluates hangar and aviation-facility projects throughout Florida.
Our core Central Florida service area includes:
- Orange County
- Seminole County
- Lake County
- Osceola County
- Volusia County
- Polk County
Projects outside these counties may also be considered when they present a strong aviation, investment, or strategic development opportunity.
Partner With Latitude 98
We welcome hangar and aviation-facility opportunities from:
- Airport owners
- Municipalities and counties
- Airport authorities
- Aircraft owners
- Aviation businesses
- Maintenance providers
- Flight schools
- FBO operators
- Investors
- Lenders
- Landowners
- Brokers
- Hangar associations
- Corporate flight departments
Whether the opportunity involves one private hangar, a multi-unit hangar complex, a maintenance facility, a flight-school building, or a larger aviation commercial development, Latitude 98 is prepared to evaluate the project.
Building Better Places for Aircraft and Aviation Businesses
Latitude 98 combines aviation knowledge, real estate development, practical planning, and construction oversight to create hangars and facilities that support long-term airport growth.