Upgrades needed at Chenango airport
NORTH NORWICH – The 11-year-old fuel system at the county’s airport is in need of repairs and upgrades in order to meet new safety standards.
Lt. Warren E. Eaton Airport Administrator Donald W. MacIntosh told lawmakers last week that an initial estimate for the work came in at $25,000 – $15,000 to meet new safety codes added since the system was installed and $10,000 for repair parts.
“I just want to put you on notice that we might be spending some money to stay in business,” he said. MacIntosh planned to request two additional proposals for the work before returning to his standing committee to formally request that the funds be taken from the airport’s $500,000 trust fund.
The airport receives 4 cents on every dollar spent for fuel at the airport. It is a significant contribution to its $24,000 annual operating budget, representing about $11,000. Revenue for T-hangar rentals totals about $12,000 per year and leasing and renting the surrounding airport-owned land raises $4,000.
No county-raised tax levies go toward the airport.
In related news, MacIntosh told members of the Chenango County Planning & Economic Development Committee that negotiations for a year-long contract with the airport operator, PrivatAir, are near completion. PrivatAir has been operating without a contract since mid-2003.
“It’s been a long, long road,” Committee Chairperson Linda E. Natoli, R-Norwich, commented.
PrivatAir is restricted to a year-to-year contract by its own agreement with Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. “One of the leading factors for them staying here is that the pharmacy wants (its planes) to take off from here, not Binghamton nor Syracuse,” MacIntosh said.
Through the years, the legislature has approved the addition of T-hangars, runway expansions and other improvements in an efforts to keep the airport viable for use by a more diversified clientele, including commercial airpline companies.
MacIntosh said the airport “needs to be ready” in case Cincinnati-based P&G pulls its already limited pharmaceutical operations completely out of Norwich.
Easements on one property that would be critical for a runway expansion project have been signed and closed. Two others are in the process. New York’s State Environmental Quality Review results have also been received in for replacing the runway’s threshold.
Lt. Warren E. Eaton Airport Administrator Donald W. MacIntosh told lawmakers last week that an initial estimate for the work came in at $25,000 – $15,000 to meet new safety codes added since the system was installed and $10,000 for repair parts.
“I just want to put you on notice that we might be spending some money to stay in business,” he said. MacIntosh planned to request two additional proposals for the work before returning to his standing committee to formally request that the funds be taken from the airport’s $500,000 trust fund.
The airport receives 4 cents on every dollar spent for fuel at the airport. It is a significant contribution to its $24,000 annual operating budget, representing about $11,000. Revenue for T-hangar rentals totals about $12,000 per year and leasing and renting the surrounding airport-owned land raises $4,000.
No county-raised tax levies go toward the airport.
In related news, MacIntosh told members of the Chenango County Planning & Economic Development Committee that negotiations for a year-long contract with the airport operator, PrivatAir, are near completion. PrivatAir has been operating without a contract since mid-2003.
“It’s been a long, long road,” Committee Chairperson Linda E. Natoli, R-Norwich, commented.
PrivatAir is restricted to a year-to-year contract by its own agreement with Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. “One of the leading factors for them staying here is that the pharmacy wants (its planes) to take off from here, not Binghamton nor Syracuse,” MacIntosh said.
Through the years, the legislature has approved the addition of T-hangars, runway expansions and other improvements in an efforts to keep the airport viable for use by a more diversified clientele, including commercial airpline companies.
MacIntosh said the airport “needs to be ready” in case Cincinnati-based P&G pulls its already limited pharmaceutical operations completely out of Norwich.
Easements on one property that would be critical for a runway expansion project have been signed and closed. Two others are in the process. New York’s State Environmental Quality Review results have also been received in for replacing the runway’s threshold.
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