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Hangar

An aircraft hangar that doubles as a smuggling business: steal air freight cargo for free, store it, and fly it out to buyers for Ron.

  • Business
  • Active
  • Solo, with limits
To buy in
$1,200,000 – $3,250,000
Management
Medium
Raids
Not confirmed
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No other business
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Hangars · McKenzie Field Hangar

What the Hangar is

A Hangar is a large aircraft garage at the city airport or at Fort Zancudo. It is also the base of an air freight smuggling business that you run with Ron Jakowski through Free Trade Shipping Co.

You do not have to run the business at all: plenty of owners keep a hangar simply to store and modify their aircraft.

What you get

  • Storage for your personal aircraft, and a Cuban 800 that comes free with every hangar.
  • An office computer that shows the cargo you hold and the steal missions you have completed, and from which every cargo mission starts.
  • The option of an aircraft workshop, where your aircraft can be modified and where Charlie Reed sells upgrades for the Avenger, and of living quarters.

Before you buy

What you need

  • Air freight cargo is run while registered as a VIP, CEO or MC President; either kind of organisation can take on the cargo missions.

How to start

Buy a hangar from Maze Bank Foreclosures and register as a VIP, CEO or MC President. The first cargo mission is normally a setup that sends you to steal a Mogul from the Lost MC.

How it runs and makes money

Fill the hangar by stealing cargo through missions launched from the office computer. Sourcing costs nothing, unlike buying special cargo, and there are many kinds of steal mission. Rooster McCraw can also be paid to bring in a crate or two without you playing a mission.

Each steal puts a wait on that type of cargo only, so you can move straight on to a different type.

Sell from the same computer. The kind of sale mission you get is random and has nothing to do with how much you are selling, so even a small sale can be a long flight. Ron takes a cut of every sale.

Holding a lot of one type of cargo earns a bonus when you sell, and the steps differ between the categories of cargo.

  • Setup mission

    Setup

    The first cargo mission normally sends you to steal a Mogul guarded by the Lost MC.

  • Steal Cargo

    Supplies

    Free sourcing missions started from the hangar computer, in many variants by air and on the ground.

  • Roof Bombings

    Supplies

    A co-operative steal mission in which a Rogue bombs rooftops, with a second player working the bombs.

  • Air Ambulance

    Supplies

    A co-operative steal mission using an air ambulance helicopter and suppressed sniper rifles.

  • Rooster sourcing

    Service work

    Pay Rooster McCraw to bring in a crate or two without playing a mission.

  • Air freight sale missions

    Selling1–4 players

    Deliver stock for Ron by Havok, Skylift, Cargobob, Hunter, Mogul, Alpha-Z1 and other vehicles; the type of run is chosen at random.

  • RM-10 Bombushka

    Selling2–4 players

    An armed cargo plane drops the stock over distant drop zones; it needs a gunner.

  • Seabreeze

    Selling

    A one-player seaplane run dropping cargo to trucks or tugs while Rogues attack.

  • Ground sale missions

    Selling

    Deliveries by road, added later, using ground vehicles such as the Ratel or a Phantom towing a cargo trailer.

  • Oscar Guzman Flies Again

    Other1–4 players

    A mission strand started from the McKenzie Field Hangar laptop, ending with the theft of a gunship.

  • Arms Trafficking

    Contracts and jobs1 players

    Freemode jobs for Oscar, started from the McKenzie Field Hangar laptop.

Playing alone

Most steal missions are built for one player, but a couple of variants only turn up when two or more players are in the organisation. Sales take up to four players, and some sale types need at least two, including the RM-10 Bombushka run, which needs a gunner.

Figures

Only values two independent checks agree on. Payouts can change with updates, bonuses, lobby and difficulty.

Earnings

Rise in air freight sale value from owning Higgins Helitours, in per cent
10

Capacity

Hangar locations
5
Aircraft a hangar stores, without extra slots
20
Extra aircraft slots from owning the McKenzie Field Hangar
15

Limits and timers

Most players on an air freight sale
4

Upgrades

Ordered by our rule: upgrades that raise production or value first, then ones some content needs, then the rest.

  • Aircraft Workshop

    Needed for some content

    Adds an aircraft workshop so your aircraft can be modified inside the hangar; it is also where Charlie Reed sells upgrades for the Avenger.

    Unlocks content

    $1,150,000

  • Living Quarters

    Depends how you play

    Adds personal living quarters to the hangar.

    Convenience

    Traditional: $235,000 · Modern: $375,000

Where you can buy it

Prices are shown only where confirmed. A cheaper site is not automatically a worse one: where your missions send you matters too.

There are hangars at Los Santos International Airport and at Fort Zancudo. LSIA Hangar A17 is the cheapest, and Fort Zancudo Hangar A2 the dearest.

A Fort Zancudo hangar lets you and the members of your organisation or MC into the base without drawing a wanted level; the airport hangars are cheaper.

Risks and common mistakes

Risks

Whether stored cargo can be raided is not confirmed yet.

Sales are flown or driven across the map, and some routes face armed opposition or police helicopters on the way.

Common mistakes

  • Selling small amounts of mixed cargo: a sale can be just as long whatever its size, and a bigger stock of one type earns a bonus.
  • Expecting a sale to be solo-friendly: some sale types need a second player, and the type is random.
  • Trying to park stolen aircraft, CEO helicopters or mission aircraft in the hangar: they cannot be stored there.

Good to know

Before you buy

  • The air freight business is run as a VIP, CEO or MC President, and the cargo missions work for either kind of organisation.

What it unlocks

  • Hangars are bought from Maze Bank Foreclosures.
  • A Fort Zancudo hangar lets the owner, and the members of their organisation or MC, enter the base without a wanted level.
  • The McKenzie Field Hangar is bought from Maze Bank Foreclosures, at the sign on site or on the website.
  • The laptop in the McKenzie Field Hangar office starts the Oscar Guzman Flies Again strand and the Arms Trafficking jobs.

Setting up

  • The computer in the hangar office runs the business through Free Trade Shipping Co and shows the cargo held and the steal missions completed.
  • The first cargo mission is normally a setup in which you steal a Mogul guarded by the Lost MC.

Supplies

  • Stealing air freight cargo costs nothing, unlike buying special cargo.
  • Rooster McCraw can be paid to source cargo crates so that you do not have to play the mission yourself.

Cooldowns

  • After a steal, the wait applies only to the type of cargo just collected; a different type can be sourced straight away.

Selling

  • The type of sale mission is random and does not depend on how much is being sold, so even a single crate can mean a long delivery, and some types need two players.
  • Holding many crates of one cargo type earns a bonus on the sale, in steps that differ between cargo categories.
  • Ron Jakowski takes a cut of every sale.

Links to other businesses

  • Owning Higgins Helitours as well as a hangar raises what air freight sales are worth.

Storage

  • Every hangar comes with a free Cuban 800.
  • Pegasus aircraft become personal aircraft once parked in the hangar, after which they can be resprayed.
  • Stolen aircraft, CEO and VIP helicopters, mission aircraft, the Thruster and the Sparrow cannot be kept in a hangar.
  • An Avenger can be kept in the hangar in a slot of its own, and moved between the hangar and a facility from the Interaction Menu.
  • The McKenzie Field Hangar adds extra aircraft slots to a personal hangar you also own.

Meters

  • A hangar carries a daily fee, with a further charge for each aircraft you own.

What it connects to

Linked businesses

  • Nightclub — Owning a hangar lets a Nightclub technician build up Cargo and Shipments stock.
  • Money Fronts — Higgins Helitours raises the value of air freight sales when you own a hangar too.
  • Facility — The Avenger can be stored in a hangar, and its Charlie Upgrades are sold only at a hangar workshop.

Sensible next purchases

  • Nightclub — A Nightclub turns your hangar into a feeder for its Cargo and Shipments stock.
  • Money Fronts — Higgins Helitours makes every air freight sale worth more.
Contacts
Ron Jakowski, Charlie Reed, Rooster McCraw, Oscar Guzman
Vehicles
  • Cuban 800 — The free aircraft that comes with every hangar.
  • Mogul — Stolen in the setup mission, and one of the sale aircraft.
  • Titan 250 D — The gunship stolen in the Oscar Guzman Flies Again strand.