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Monday, February 20, 2017

Crossville council OKs agreement on new corporate hanger at airport

The Crossville city council approved a plan discussed during the council's earlier work session on how to handle operation of the new corporate hanger at the Crossville Memorial Airport.

The new hanger is now complete and council also approved the final change order on the construction that reduced the cost of the total project by $13,296. The total cost of the hanger is around $1 million and with a grant, the city's portion of the cost was 5 percent or around $50,000.

Crossville Memorial Airport

There was a short discussion at the work session on the operation of the hanger. The city does not yet know what the average utilities cost will be for the operation nor what kind of demand the hanger will generate and rental revenue. The discussion from airport manager Chris Bennett of Crossville Areo included some typical rental charges for use of hangers at other airports in the area that Bennett researched.

Word for word: Airport hanger discussion

The discussion turned to allowing Bennett to rent the entire hanger from the city allowing him to operate the facility, paying for the utilities and a monthly rental charge while allowing Bennett to keep any fees generated by the use of the hanger.

At the regular meeting, Mayor James Mayberry explained that the city would accept $200 a month rent from Bennett for the use of the hanger. Mayberry moved to approve the agreement that would be amended to the rental agreement the city already has with the fixed base operator.


The motion was supported by councilman Danny Wyatt and with no further discussion, the motion was unanimously approved by all four council members present. Councilman J. H. Graham was unable to attend the meeting.  

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