Abraham Lincoln Capital Aiport<\/a>.\u00a0 It is clear that Senator Turner recognizes the recent efforts and investments that have been made locally and it is meaningful that she understands the investments being made directly support the entire region as the airport is home to numerous jobs and is a catalyst for economic growth in the community,\u201d said Frank J. Vala, Chair of the Springfield Airport Authority.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nRecently, the Authority has been making significant improvements to StandardAero, the major overhaul and aircraft repair station located in the airport\u2019s north quadrant. StandardAero employs approximately 200 highly skilled and trained technicians, engineers and support staff. They service aircraft from around the globe at its Springfield, Illinois plant. Significant work has already been completed to improve some of the original hangars, and more work is planned to upgrade and modernize the aircraft painting facility, engineering and support areas and the main aircraft maintenance bays. StandardAero enjoys a harmonious relationship with LRS\u2019s Aviation Maintenance Training Center located at Lincoln Land Community College\u2019s classroom and hangar facility at the airport. The upgrades to the existing facilities have the potential to support the expansion of StandardAero\u2019s location in Springfield. Additionally, the Airport Authority has been working to attract a pilot training program in recent years. Significant improvements are underway to accommodate a flight training program at Stellar Aviation\u2019s corporate and general Aviation terminal complex in the airport\u2019s east quadrant. These developments have been precipitated by the nationwide pilot shortage and the forecasted scarcity of aviation maintenance technicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair Vala concluded by stating, \u201cThe Authority has set the table for aviation workforce training and economic growth at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport and it is important to realize that Senator Turner and other public and private stakeholders have recognized our progress and are now making real commitments and contributions to support these initiatives to advance workforce training and economic development in the Springfield area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Turner has also recently supported Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport\u2019s effort to further prepare property in the future Airport Commerce Park located in the airport\u2019s south quadrant as it was recently awarded funding through Illinois\u2019 Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Regional Site Readiness Planning Program to complete mapping and layouts for the commerce park to satisfy information requests from site development selectors and to complete the necessary preliminary drainage planning for the site. Additionally, the future Airport Commerce Park was recently approved to be included in Intersect Illinois Vetted Sites Program which provides site and infrastructure data to support fast-moving development projects throughout Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Doris Turner has secured $4.5 million in capital project funding in the State of Illinois\u2019 2026 Budget which was signed by the Governor last week.\u00a0 These funds are dedicated for airport capital improvements including aircraft maintenance and flight training facility development.\u00a0 The Springfield Airport Authority has made significant investments throughout the entire 2,400+ acre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981","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=31981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31985,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981\/revisions\/31985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}