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Concordia Airport gets $300,000 grant for hanger
The Concordia Parish Airport Authority has received a $300,000 grant for planning, engineering and construction of a 10-bay T-hanger building at the airport, which once built and leased should generate an additional $1,400 monthly in revenue.
Airport Authority chairman Carl Sayers said Monday he received the news from Danielle Gaylor, Program Manager of the Louisiana Department of Transportation Aviation Division.
Located within one mile from Vidalia's growing industrial park and two miles from the Vidalia Mississippi River port project, Sayers said the airport's business is growing.
He said the leasing of its main hangar is the airport's primary source of income and is limited to its current nine-aircraft capacity out of a total of 17-aircraft currently based at the airport.
He noted that there are several aircraft owners and businesses in the area that will lease hanger space to locate and operate their aircraft from Concordia Parish Airport once the additional space is available.
"These individuals and businesses will be bringing their aviation business dollars to Concordia Parish by making fuel purchases and providing additional lease revenue to the Airport Authority that will be used to make additional improvements and help maintain the airport," said Sayers.
A new 4000 gallon automated credit card type 24-hour fuel pump system has recently been installed at the airport and is adjacent to the existing T-hanger building site. Sayers said this system provides convenient re-fueling capability for all tenants utilizing an automated credit card reader similar to those of an automotive fueling station. He said fuel sales revenue has increased more than 160 percent in the first year.
The planning, bidding and construction time of the T-hanger building is estimated to take about six months. The hangers should be in operation by third quarter of 2010.
Sayers said the Concordia Airport has already received 100 percent federal & state funding in 2005 in the amount of $498,000 which was used for engineering and construction of the support taxiways, access ramps and building site for the purpose of future construction of the proposed T-Hanger Building. |
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