Centennial Airport · APA · Englewood, CO

Hangar door service at Centennial Airport (APA)

Centennial Airport in the Dove Valley area is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country, and it carries the heaviest jet population on the Front Range — roughly 840 based aircraft, around 147 of them jets. That fleet mix is the single most important thing about doing door work here: it means large-span corporate and FBO hangars, high-value aircraft behind the door, and operators who cannot afford an unplanned outage.

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What Centennial hangars are actually like

The jet-heavy fleet at APA drives hangar design. A corporate or charter hangar sized for business jets needs a clear opening wide enough and — critically — tall enough for a swept tail, which pushes operators toward large bifold doors or hydraulic one-piece doors rather than the sliding and bottom-rolling doors common at light-GA fields. Those are the most consequential doors we work on. A bifold door of that span carries serious load on its cables or lifting straps, sheaves and header attachment, and a hydraulic door concentrates the entire leaf on its cylinders and power unit. When something fails on an opening that size it is a safety event, not a nuisance, and the aircraft behind it is frequently worth more than the building. Access here also has to be planned: APA is a controlled field with real traffic volume, and airside work means badging, escort and a scheduled window rather than pulling a truck up to the door.

Field

Centennial Airport (APA) — Englewood, CO, Arapahoe & Douglas counties. Owned by Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority.

Based fleet

roughly 840 aircraft, including around 147 jets — the largest jet population of any field on the Front Range, which means large-span corporate hangars rather than light-GA rows.

What we do here

Repair, scheduled maintenance and new installation of bifold, hydraulic one-piece, sliding and bottom-rolling hangar doors.

Based-aircraft figures are drawn from published FAA airport records and vary by reporting year — they describe the character of the field, not a current count.

The door work that matters at APA

For large bifold doors the recurring items are cable and strap wear, sheave and bearing condition, drive and motor alignment, limit-switch calibration, and the structural attachment at the header — all of which are inspection items long before they are repair items. Hydraulic one-piece doors add cylinders, hoses, seals and the power unit, where a slow leak shows up as a door that will not hold position. On every large door we also look at weather sealing, because a jet hangar is usually climate-controlled and a poor bottom seal is a genuine operating cost through a Front Range winter. We service doors from any manufacturer, including Schweiss, and can build a preventive-maintenance plan around equipment we did not install.

FAQ

Hangar doors at Centennial — common questions

Can you work airside at Centennial without disrupting operations?

Yes, with planning. APA is a controlled field with high traffic, so airside work is arranged in advance — badging, escort and an agreed window. We schedule around your flight activity rather than expecting the ramp to be clear when we arrive.

Our hangar has a large bifold door. What should be inspected and how often?

Cables or lifting straps, sheaves and bearings, drive and motor alignment, limit switches, fasteners and the header attachment. On a large door carrying that much load these are annual inspection items at minimum, and more often on a door that cycles daily — catching a frayed cable is far cheaper than what follows if it lets go.

Do you service hydraulic one-piece hangar doors?

Yes. Hydraulic doors have their own failure set — cylinders, hoses, seals and the power unit. A door that drifts or will not hold position is usually hydraulic rather than structural, and it is generally repairable without replacing the leaf.

Can we get priority response if a hangar door goes down?

Priority and after-hours emergency response is reserved for our Planned Maintenance program clients — enrolled hangars go to the front of the line. For everyone else we schedule as promptly as our route allows.

Other airports & areas we cover

Hangar doors are a specialty that travels further than our routine commercial service area — we cover fields across the Front Range.

Hangar door down at Centennial?

Call now or request an estimate — certified specialists for bifold, hydraulic and sliding hangar doors.