County goes ahead with new airport hangars
NORWICH – Despite the pending pull-out of Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals’ business, the cog began churning again this week for the development of an additional 12-bay t-hangar at Lt. Warren E. Eaton Jr. Chenango County Airport.
P&G executives have been flown back and forth between the North Norwich-based airfield and P&G’s headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio most weekdays for decades. Nonetheless, the company’s recent announcement that it would be ending local operations isn’t expected to impact air traffic here, officials say.
“There’s no question that every day traffic will diminish, but you’re not going to see a huge difference,” PrivatAir Manager Jamie Baciuska said Thursday. PrivateAir, the Eaton airport’s operators, used its own aircraft to fly P&G executives. Baciuska said they will instead be piloting a growing roster of corporate clients based outside of Norwich.
“We will be going empty to other locations to pick up and take passengers places, and then come back empty,” he said.
The need for another t-hangar and taxiway at the county’s airport is supported by a waiting list of six general aviation pilots who are looking for space, Airport Administrator Donald MacIntosh said. There were just two waiting for hangar spots in the spring.
Moreover, the project is next in the line of capital improvements listed for the airport through 2012. The Chenango County Board of Supervisors gave MacIntosh the go-ahead to apply for grants for the hangar nearly a year ago.
The county board named itself the lead agency on Dec. 10 for completing the necessary environmental studies. The New York State Environmental Quality Review Act study, taxiway and t-hangar are expected to cost approximately $900,000. MacIntosh said the county anticipates receiving half the amount from state and federal grants. It will dip into the airport’s $500,000 trust fund and/or accrued interest to cover the remainder.
Airport officials currently have a contract signed for work crews to begin removing trees and other obstructions on the north end of the runway in February. In between that and the hangar project is a feasibility study needed for extending the runway.
There were 1,192 take offs and landings at the airport in 2006. Flight instruction accounted for 142; P&G, 386; New York Central Mutual, 190; and Lockheed Martin, 160. Smaller companies, such as Baillie Lumber, E Tetz & Son, South Fork Asphalt, Grow & Bloom Alternative Heating and Therma Tron X accounted for double digit numbers.
P&G executives have been flown back and forth between the North Norwich-based airfield and P&G’s headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio most weekdays for decades. Nonetheless, the company’s recent announcement that it would be ending local operations isn’t expected to impact air traffic here, officials say.
“There’s no question that every day traffic will diminish, but you’re not going to see a huge difference,” PrivatAir Manager Jamie Baciuska said Thursday. PrivateAir, the Eaton airport’s operators, used its own aircraft to fly P&G executives. Baciuska said they will instead be piloting a growing roster of corporate clients based outside of Norwich.
“We will be going empty to other locations to pick up and take passengers places, and then come back empty,” he said.
The need for another t-hangar and taxiway at the county’s airport is supported by a waiting list of six general aviation pilots who are looking for space, Airport Administrator Donald MacIntosh said. There were just two waiting for hangar spots in the spring.
Moreover, the project is next in the line of capital improvements listed for the airport through 2012. The Chenango County Board of Supervisors gave MacIntosh the go-ahead to apply for grants for the hangar nearly a year ago.
The county board named itself the lead agency on Dec. 10 for completing the necessary environmental studies. The New York State Environmental Quality Review Act study, taxiway and t-hangar are expected to cost approximately $900,000. MacIntosh said the county anticipates receiving half the amount from state and federal grants. It will dip into the airport’s $500,000 trust fund and/or accrued interest to cover the remainder.
Airport officials currently have a contract signed for work crews to begin removing trees and other obstructions on the north end of the runway in February. In between that and the hangar project is a feasibility study needed for extending the runway.
There were 1,192 take offs and landings at the airport in 2006. Flight instruction accounted for 142; P&G, 386; New York Central Mutual, 190; and Lockheed Martin, 160. Smaller companies, such as Baillie Lumber, E Tetz & Son, South Fork Asphalt, Grow & Bloom Alternative Heating and Therma Tron X accounted for double digit numbers.
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