Prep work requires acid etching and pressure washing.

by Paul Bertorelli and Sarah Sigmund

Inadequacy defined: stroll into a corporate hangar where the Gulfstreams live and compare that boundless flat plain of polished epoxy to the crummy oil-splotched concrete your Cessna or Bonanza calls home. It’s enough to make a grown man whimper with that worst of jealousies, hangar-floor envy. (And let’s not even think about mercury vapor lighting and forced air heating.)

While it’s true that many of us are lucky to even have a hangar let alone a polished palace of the sort the typical bizjet occupies, it’s just as true that a clean and orderly hangar—and especially a clean floor—elevates airplane ownership from mundane object possession to…