By the end of the summer the Perry Municipal Airport with have another plane hangar.

The City Council approved the low bid for the project at their meeting Monday to the tune of $305,500 and the winning bidder is no stranger to Perry.

“They’ve done a lot of work here in Perry these last few years.  They built the last hangar that we built at the airport, they’re working on the (Rowley) Masonic Home addition, and they did our parking lot at the McCreary Center, which they will finish up this spring.  So they’re in town, so I think mobilization was something that maybe they thought they didn’t have to do too much with” says Niebuhr.

That’s City Administrator Butch Niebuhr who says work on the project should begin shortly.

“Construction for that hangar will probably start pretty quick on the ground with what they can do with the cement, get the utilities ran and things like that.  The building will be ordered, the building is probably out 16 weeks, so we’re looking at a first of August, last of July completion date for that project.”

And the additional hangar is much needed considering the Perry airport has a waiting list for pilots.

“Some of them are you know, small corporate planes.  Others are just general aviation, people looking for a place where it’s not so congested for them to take off, possibly a smaller airport.  But they also want an airport that has all the facilities and has a fixed base operator and the fuel and everything they need for their airplane” adds Niebuhr.

Jensen Builder’s bid, came in roughly $80,000 less than the engineer’s estimate for the project.