{"id":24020,"date":"2022-11-18T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24020"},"modified":"2022-11-18T00:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:26:20","slug":"gso-tower-comes-online-faa-project-led-by-all-woman-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/gso-tower-comes-online-faa-project-led-by-all-woman-team\/%20","title":{"rendered":"GSO Tower Comes Online, FAA Project Led by All-Woman Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – Members of the engineering team include FAA employees (left to right): Kelsey Torchia, Maylisse Matos, Stefanie Johnson and Courtney Nolan.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to being the newest air traffic control building\nin the United States, the tower at Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO)\nhas another distinction: women engineers led its design, procurement, and\nconstruction. FAA leaders celebrated the accomplishment and the FAA-first\nduring a recent dedication of the Senator Kay Hagan Air Traffic Control Tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn North Carolina where there are many aviation firsts,\nthis is a notable moment,\u201d said FAA Deputy Administrator A. Bradley Mims. \u201cThe\nnew tower will allow the airport to keep up with the increased demand in and\nout of this busy region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new tower is 180 feet tall, with a 550-square-foot cab\nto accommodate up to eight positions for air traffic controllers. The\n15,650-square-foot base houses the Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON)\nwith up to 10 radar positions. The TRACON controls airspace within a 60-mile\nradius of the airport that includes 20 general aviation airports. It is\nequipped with the latest communications and navigation technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kevin J. Baker<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new tower is critical to the airport\u2019s continuing\nmission to be a place of aerospace economic development. It enables the growth\nof the airport\u2019s footprint and at the same time provides increased safety and\nefficiency of operations,\u201d said GSO Executive Director Kevin J. Baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty-two FAA employees work at the tower and TRACON: 35 in\nair traffic services and 17 in technical operations. Construction on the tower\nbegan in April 2019 and became operational in late September 2022. The cost of\nthe project was approximately $58 million. It replaces a 90-foot-tall tower\nthat has been in operation since 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, Congress passed legislation to name the new tower\nafter the late-U.S. Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina. Senator Hagan\u2019s\nefforts helped provide the funding for the tower\u2019s construction.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new facility at North Carolina\u2019s fourth-busiest airport\nis the second tower commissioned in the state this year. The tower at Charlotte\nDouglas International Airport became operational in February 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – Members of the engineering team include FAA employees (left to right): Kelsey Torchia, Maylisse Matos, Stefanie Johnson and Courtney Nolan. In addition to being the newest air traffic control building in the United States, the tower at Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) has another distinction: women engineers led its design, procurement, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Piedmont-tower-FAA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24023,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions\/24023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}