Watertown Regional Airport
different location to split general aviation from commercial aviation,” Syhre continues. “And once they complete the new build, we’ll move over to the new building and demolish the old building for more expansion in the general aviation field – for GA hangars, publicly-owned T-hangars, and, possibly, an FBO or a maintenance facility. Completion date on that project is December 2021, at a cost of roughly $12 million; $9 million of that came from supplemental funding from the FAA that we got awarded in late 2019. The extra $3 million will come from city funds and state and local match. “In the new terminal, we’re going to have a full restaurant. And we’ll bring back the nostalgic ‘$100 hamburger.’ (The $100 hamburger originally referred to the approximate cost of renting or operating a light, general aviation aircraft and the costs involved in flying it to and from a nearby airport for a bite to eat.) You can fly into the Watertown Regional Airport, enter the terminal building, sit landside, and have a burger WATERTOWN REGIONAL A I RPORT
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