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The Upper Cumberland Regional Airport has received funding for its hangar construction project.
The airport board approved applying for the $500,000 grant last year. Airport Manager Dean Selby said now the body will consider accepting the grant at its Tuesday meeting.
“It would be a 50/50 grant for a million dollars worth of construction for T-Hangars,” Selby said. “We’re excited about that. We’re ready to present it to the board next week and get our board’s approval to move forward with the airport using revenue from internal to match that amount.”
Selby said if approved, the engineering process would begin to prepare the project for bid. Selby said he anticipates the contract for work to be awarded in about six months with about a year of construction.
“The first thing that we would do would be the engineering for the site and doing the engineering will take some time, and then, we will have to receive bids,” Selby said. “We’re at least six months I would say to be ready to move forward with awarding the contract.”
Selby said the project calls for 12 to 18 hangars at the south-end of the airport. Selby said each facility will house one aircraft to help relieve a long waiting list for hangar use.
