Executive Airpark what the aviation industry calls a fixed-base operator and the company overseeing the day-to-day operations of the airport agreed to make pavement improvements, construct parking facilities, and refurbish and build 69,800 square feet of new hangar space. It also plans to create a 5,850-square-foot flight club lounge with a public viewing area, a fuel farm and a community aircraft wash rack.
Space will be set aside for an Urban Air Mobility hub that once technology and regulation allow is intended to support a new type of energy-efficient aircraft. Long-term plans also include the creation of an aviation museum for the public.
A new flight school and hangars have been completed at Montgomery Field as part of ongoing upgrades benefiting business travelers. Photo courtesy of C&S Companies.
A $10 million construction project has been completed at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport for Coast Flight that includes new hangars, a new flight school and fueling facility for private jets and prop planes.
C&S Companies replaced eight existing buildings that were deteriorating and had outlived their usefulness with three new buildings, including the new flight school, said Cory Hazlewood, company vice president.
“They were very run down and dated. They were just in poor shape,” Hazlewood said. “It really dressed up an area of the airport that was in bad shape.”
SAN DIEGO
A plane crash in February at Montgomery Field requiring nearly $1 million in environmental clean-up efforts forced the San Diego City Council to approve on Tuesday an emergency influx of cash for the city’s airports fund.
The $1.5 million in cash will cover $911,000 for the crash clean-up, $340,000 to upgrade buildings at Montgomery Field in Kearny Mesa for a possible tenant, and $270,000 to analyze proposed upgrades at Brown Field in Otay Mesa.
Council members stressed that the money is coming from just over $12.1 million in airport reserves, not the city’s general fund.
The city hopes to get reimbursed for the clean-up costs by the pilot responsible for the Feb. 13 crash or his insurance company, Jorge Rubio, the city’s deputy director for airports, told the council’s budget committee in early April.