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City staff and consultant present McMinnville Airport master plan; apron expansion and hangar land identified
Summary
Airport administrator Willie Williamson and Century West presented a draft 20‑year master plan to the City Council. The plan finds the airfield generally meets FAA standards, recommends apron expansion to add larger transient aircraft parking, identifies additional hangar sites and a near‑term CIP of runway/taxiway lighting, fencing and pavement.
Willie Williamson, the City of McMinnville airport administrator, and Century West planners presented a draft airport master plan at the City Council work session. The plan compiles FAA‑required analysis and an airport layout plan and lays out a 20‑year capital improvement program intended to preserve runway capacity and add aircraft parking and commercial hangar opportunities.
Why it matters: the master plan sets the airport layout plan required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to qualify for federal airport improvement funding, identifies land available for aviation‑oriented business and suggests where the city and private operators could locate new hangars, a future fixed‑base operator (FBO) facility, and transient business‑jet parking that the airport currently lacks.
Key points from the presentation
- Airfield condition and standards: Century West found the primary runway, taxiways…
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