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Duluth airport, county emphasize need for new control tower as FAA project seeks state funding
Summary
Airport and county officials described a 70-year-old air-traffic control tower as a safety limitation and cited a joint resolution backing a state funding request to support FAA work on a new 143-foot tower site.
County and Duluth International Airport officials told the St. Louis County Board on Feb. 3 that a replacement air-traffic control tower is the airport’s top infrastructure priority and that the airport is pursuing state and federal funding to advance the project.
Tom Warner, executive director of Duluth International Airport, told commissioners the airport “provides about 760,600,000 to the annual regional economy, supports 62100 jobs,” and described the existing air-traffic control tower as 70 years old and the third-oldest…
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