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Airports director outlines trust structure, international targets and infrastructure upgrades
Summary
Jeff Moulder, director of airports, told a city department spotlight audience the airport operates as both a city department and the Oklahoma City Airport Trust, highlighted recent passenger records and spring-break peaks, and outlined projects including a parking garage and a Meridian–Amelia Airheart intersection redesign ahead of the 2028 Olympics.
Jeff Moulder, director of airports, said the airport operates both as a city department and as the Oklahoma City Airport Trust, a state-authorized trust established in 1956 that lets the airport issue debt and manage facilities separately from the city's general fund.
"We are a combination of a city department, but we're also a trust," Moulder said, explaining the trust board includes the mayor, the city manager, a city council member and two private citizens. He said the arrangement allows the trust to develop and operate airport facilities — including the Mike Moroni Aeronautical Center — without using the city's general-obligation debt.
Moulder reviewed the airport system, naming Will Rogers International Airport, Wiley Post Airport, Clarence Page Airport and the Mike Moroni Aeronautical Center as the trust's primary facilities. He said passenger volumes…
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