Wappinger – The FAA has granted the Dutchess County Airport a $504,000 grant to replace the existing airfield electric vault, which has reached the end of its useful life.
The FAA grants are “vital to keeping the airport running safely and effectively for the more than 73,000 takeoffs and landings that take place there each year,” said County Executive Marcus Molinaro.
“The dollars will go for system upgrades, the undercarriage of the airport allowing us to continue to focus on investing, bring water facilities to the county airport, bringing solar technology to the county airport, and ultimately a private sector partner to manage airport operations,” Molinaro said.
The county will select a private company to operate the airport as a fixed base operator within the next several weeks and future plans for the facility will make it an even greater economic engine for the county, he said. The airport had an annual economic impact of over $44 million for the local economy.
Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney announced this latest grant.
