The Bay City Times reports:
The Michigan House of Representatives approved a budget bill this week that provides $5 million to help build a huge airplane hangar at Iosco County’s Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport. The project could create 200 to 300 skilled jobs.
But state Rep. Joel Sheltrown, D-West Branch, whose district includes Iosco County, said the funding has to survive the Senate and Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm before the check is written. ”I will know (what happens) within a couple weeks. I would say to be cautiously optimistic,” Sheltrown said Thursday.
The airport, once operated as Wurtsmith Air Force Base, is seeking state and federal money toward the cost of a proposed $16.1 million aircraft hangar.
Ypsilanti-based Kalitta Air, which repairs its jet cargo aircraft at Wurtsmith, wants to lease the hangar to work on 747 jumbo jets indoors.
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