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Sedgwick County staff weigh building hangar to anchor Kansas Highway Patrol in Wichita
Summary
County staff and commissioners discussed building and bonding an $8 million hangar to house Kansas Highway Patrol and the sheriff’s aircraft, with staff asked to draft an MOU to secure a $650,000 legislative allocation and return with detailed financial analysis and potential partnership terms with the Wichita Airport Authority.
Sedgwick County officials on Jan. 6 discussed building a county-owned hangar to house Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) and the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s aircraft and to anchor KHP operations in the Wichita area. Colonel White of the Sheriff’s Office said the aircraft provide rapid search-and-rescue, suspect tracking and nighttime thermal imaging that “provides community safety in a way that ground troops just simply can't do.”
County staff summarized prior KHP plans: the state originally requested an 18,000-square-foot facility with a $7.3 million estimate and a letter of intent at Jabara Airport; the Kansas Legislature instead allocated $650,000 in fiscal year 2027 for a lease option. Lindsay (county staff) told commissioners that, after adding roughly 3,600 square feet for the sheriff’s needs, a current planning estimate is about $8 million and that bond financing would likely create a debt-service obligation of roughly…
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