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Trust highlights Mike Maroney Aeronautical Center: FAA training hub, 55 projects and emergency chiller replacement
Summary
At the Aug. 28 meeting the Oklahoma City Airport Trust presented an overview of the Mike Maroney Aeronautical Center, detailing campus scale, utilities the trust owns, ongoing capital projects, and a recent emergency temporary chiller installation that restored air traffic controller training facilities.
At its Aug. 28 meeting, the Oklahoma City Airport Trust highlighted the Mike Maroney Aeronautical Center, the FAA training and support campus the trust manages on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration.
James Welch of OCAT presented campus statistics and recent work: the campus includes 30 trust-owned buildings and about 129 FAA-constructed buildings, totals roughly 2.8 million square feet, and sits on nearly 1.9 square miles. Staff described daily campus activity of roughly 6,000 employees and 1,100 students and said the FAA pays about $13,000,000 in annual rent to the trust for maintenance of campus assets.
Welch said the trust currently oversees 55 active projects in planning, design or construction and maintains a five-year capital improvement plan. Trust-owned utilities on campus include electrical and natural-gas distribution systems; Welch noted the electrical system includes 81 transformers, 65 switches and about 15 miles of distribution lines, while the natural gas system includes approximately 11 miles of pipeline.
Welch described ongoing and recently completed maintenance projects: an elevator replacement program to replace eight elevators and modernize six more; roof and building-envelope work that is routine given Oklahoma storms; and a large roof project at Hangar 9. He also detailed an unplanned outage at the Thomas P. Stafford Building, which houses much of the FAA’s air-traffic-controller training. One of two chillers failed; staff procured a temporary chiller and a control panel from out of state and brought the temporary unit online the following day. Welch credited OCAT staff and contractors — and specifically named an employee, Steve, who coordinated phone calls and logistics overnight — for the fast response.
Welch said the trust currently had about $41,000,000 available in funds for upcoming capital projects but cautioned that planned work often runs tight against budgets. The presentation emphasized that trust staff are on call 24/7 at the MMAC campus to support critical FAA missions.
No formal action was requested on the presentation; trustees thanked staff for the work and noted the Stafford building’s role in national air traffic controller training.
