The City of Lee's Summit - File #: 2026-7881

• File #: 2026-7881
• Type: Presentation
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 9/14/2026
• In control: Board of Aeronautic Commissioners
• On agenda: 10/7/2026
• Title: Presentation: LXT hangar activity standard (replacing the minimum fuel program)

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Presentation: LXT hangar activity standard (replacing the minimum fuel program)

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Issue/Request:

Presentation of a proposed hangar activity standard to replace the Airport’s 12-year Minimum Annual Fuel Program for based T-hangar and community hangar tenants. Staff asks the Board to receive the presentation and support replacing the fuel-purchase requirement with a flight / flight-hour activity standard.

Key Issues:

• Based on recent FAA comments and the fact that the existing minimum fuel program now affects only a handful of based customers each year, the Airport believes it is time to replace that program with an activity standard that follows FAA hangar-use guidance and reduces grant-assurance compliance risk.
• FAA hangar-use policy (81 Fed. Reg. 38906) requires hangars to be used for an aeronautical purpose, primarily storage of active aircraft. Indefinite storage of non-operational aircraft is not an approved use. FAA does not define “active” in hours or gallons. It tells the sponsor to put the test in the hangar lease.
• FAA staff at the 4-State conference in August 2026 advised that a minimum fuel purchase for based customers can conflict with Grant Assurance 22(f). That assurance says the sponsor will not prevent an aircraft owner from servicing their own aircraft, including fueling.Grant Assurance 22(f) and FAA Order 5190.6C (Airport Compliance Manual) treat rules that have the effect of forcing a commercial fuel purchase, or channeling self-fueling to the Airport fueler as a problem
• The proposed standard measures whether the based aircraft is flown. It does not require any fuel purchase from the Airport.
• Airport Rules and Standards do not change. Self-fueling remains allowed under Subdivision II, Section C.
• The goal is the same, keep City hangars for airplanes that fly, without requiring a fuel purchase from the Airport.New Activity Standard for T-hangar tenants: three documented flights per fiscal year in the aircraft housed in that hangar.
• New Activity Standard for T-hangar tenants: three documented flights per fiscal year in the aircraft housed in that hangar.
• New Activity Standard for Community hangar tenants: 40 hours of logged flight time per fiscal year in the aircraft housed in that hangar (4 hours per month for 10 months, allowing for weather and maintenance). Community hangars are staffed, full-service space; the higher bar reflects that different product.

Background:

In 2014 the Airport adopted a Minimum Annual Fuel Program for T-hangar tenants. The purpose was not fuel revenue. It was to keep City hangars available for airplanes that fly and to discourage long-term storage of inactive aircraft. Tenants were expected to purchase 50 gallons a year from the Airport. If they did not, they were assessed a $500 fee.

Presenter

Joel Arrington, Airport Manager

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