Exposure with nothing in front of it
Air bases are flat, cleared and coastal more often than not. The opening takes the full gust with no upwind obstruction, and the door — not the wall — becomes the largest single load path in the elevation.
SECTOR · MILITARY & DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE
Military & Defence Hangar Doors
We manufacture military hangar doors for air bases, maintenance hangars and aircraft shelter openings — vertical lift and fold-up fabric leaves, calculated for the building and the wind zone it stands in. Air force hangar doors are specified against a tender, not a price list, so every opening is quoted with the calculation, the classification and the documentation attached.
- Typical clear span, air base hangar
- 30.0 – 46.0 m
- Typical clear height
- 10.5 – 15.2 m
- Governing wind class
- EN 12424 class 5
- Defining condition
- Readiness · exposure · restricted access
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DEFENCE SITES DELIVERED
Class 5
EN 12424 · > 1 000 Pa
46 m
WIDEST DEFENCE OPENING
100 %
REFERENCES ANONYMISED ON REQUEST
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What makes a military hangar opening hard
Stated before it is answeredThe door cannot be the reason for a delay
Readiness states do not wait for a door. Cycle time, manual override and a defined failure position matter more than headline speed, because the aircraft is already moving when the button is pressed.
Blast, overpressure and shelter openings
Where the building is rated for overpressure, the opening has to be treated as part of that rating. Fabric behaves differently from steel under a pressure pulse, and the difference has to be stated, not assumed.
Access control and an auditable paper trail
Vetted crews, escorted works, no site photography, and documentation an auditor can follow from calculation to installation record. Procurement asks for the file before it asks for the price.
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How the door answers it
Item by item, in the same orderExposure
Leaf, guide columns and header loads calculated together with your building for the site’s terrain category — not selected from a catalogue class. Governing class dotted until your wind data is confirmed: EN 12424 class 5 · > 1 000 Pa.
How wind load is decided →Readiness
Vertical lift geometry: the leaf travels flat into the header, so nothing sweeps the apron and nothing has to be cleared before the door moves. Manual override and a defined position on power loss.
Fabric vertical lift doors →Overpressure
Openings in shelter and hardened structures are quoted against the building’s stated pressure case, with the fabric, fixings and frame treated as one assembly. Values issued per project.
Talk to an engineer →Documentation
Declarations of performance, test reports, calculation notes and installation records issued per opening, in the tender’s format. Anonymised references supplied for security-restricted sites.
What we can document →
LOCATION WITHHELD
The base is named in the calculation file, not on the website.
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Specification, documentation and procurement
Every unconfirmed value stays dottedNATO hangar doors and STANAG specification
Where a tender references a NATO standard or a STANAG clause, we quote against the clause and say plainly which parts the door assembly is responsible for. Applicable standards on our side: EN 13241, EN 12424 wind load classification, and the operator’s own acceptance schedule.
Blast and overpressure openings
On aircraft shelter and hardened structures the opening is quoted against the building’s stated pressure case. Fabric does not behave like steel under a pressure pulse; the assumption is written into the offer rather than left to the specifier. Pressure figures issued per project.
Security and controlled site access
Named crews, vetting documentation submitted ahead of mobilisation, escorted works, and no photography on site. Our own installation teams — no subcontracted labour to re-vet mid-project. Vetting lead time to be confirmed per country.
Defense hangar doors — US terminology
US and NATO-facing documents write defense hangar doors and military aircraft shelter doors; European tenders write defence. Same product, same classification, same documentation set — we work in whichever spelling and unit system the tender uses, including imperial dimensions on request.
- Wind load classification
- EN 12424 class 5 · > 1 000 Pa
- Product standard
- EN 13241
- Thermal transmittance
- U = 1.4 W/m²K
- Fabric weight
- 0 000 g/m²
- Declaration of performance
- Issued per opening
- Calculation note
- Issued per opening
- Installation record
- Issued on handover
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Delivered defence projects
Named on request, under NDAThe projects below are illustrative of the type of work we do, not released references. Every span, height and class is dotted because none of them is confirmed yet — real references, named or anonymised, replace them once the client releases them.
NORTHERN EUROPE
Air base hangar, location withheld
Two vertical lift doors on a NATO-standard maintenance hangar. Client, site and photography under restriction; specification and calculation notes released to the tender.
Request the reference sheet →
LOCATION WITHHELDPHOTO WITHHELD · restricted site — detail or drawing to be supplied in place of a site photograph
Aircraft shelter opening, dispersal site
Fold-up leaf on a shelter opening with no headroom above the lintel. Quoted against the building’s stated overpressure case.
Request the reference sheet →
CENTRAL EUROPE
Maintenance hangar, air force operator
Retrofit into an existing hangar head with the building in service throughout. Installed by our own crews under escort.
Request the reference sheet →05
Request a quote
Sector is already set to military & defence. Give us the opening and the site and we come back with a class, a drive configuration and a price — usually within three working days. If the site is restricted, say so here and we will send the vetting pack first.
SECTOR · Military & defence
PRE-SELECTED ON THE FORM
- 01 The clear opening — width and height.
- 02 The site, so we can work out the wind class.
- 03 The headroom above the lintel, which decides the door family.
Request a quote Read by an engineer, not a call centre.
OR TALK TO AN ENGINEER
Defence & tender enquiries
+48 00 000 00 00
Email
defence@rekordaccess.com
For the tender file
We publish no client names, base names or site photography from restricted projects. References are released under NDA, with the operator’s written agreement.