Business View Magazine | November 2020

181 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 THE WI TTMAN REGIONAL A I RPORT Alpha, a concrete taxiway, built in 1967, and at the end of its useful life. The project is rebuilding 8,000 linear feet of concrete and widening the taxiway to 60 feet through the addition of paved shoulders, in order to accommodate its secondary use as a parallel runway during AirVenture. Taxiway edge lighting is being upgraded to LED, and the drainage of two aging culverts that carry a stream underneath the taxiway will be improved. The reconstruction began in March of this year and is expected to be complete by November. Another major project, currently underway at the Airport is the construction of a new General Aviation (GA) terminal facility. Currently, there are two interconnected terminal buildings on the property. One, built in 1958, is the airport’s original terminal, which has been serving as the GA terminal for several years. The other, built in 1971, served as the commercial service airline terminal until the early 2000’s. “But since the end of commercial service in 2003, it’s mainly gone unused,” Schell explains. “Between the two buildings, there’s about 40,000 square feet of floorspace, which is just too large and too costly to maintain for the current and future needs of the Airport.” “We are currently constructing a 12,500-sq.- ft., brand new, GA terminal that will provide the modern aerial gateway to Oshkosh,” Schell continues. “It’s scheduled for completion in June 2021. It will provide space for our FBO, Basler Flight Service, airport administration and operations offices, a car rental operation, and also a meeting room and event space. This project is a $5.5 million, multi-phase project that includes demolition of the existing terminal buildings, while opening up the adjacent land for future aeronautical development. That area is primarily slated for new, larger corporate hangar development, transient hangar development, and it will also leverage a big asset, which is our commercial service apron, that would be directly to the south, to build the new hangar facilities upon.” Taxiway Alpha Project. Courtesy of Omnni Associates, Inc