Governor Doyle approves $80,000 project at La Crosse Municipal Airport

March 27, 2008

Governor Jim Doyle has approved an $80,000 project to complete design engineering for a new hangar site and reconstruction of several hangar taxiways at the La Crosse Municipal Airport. The Governor's action releases $64,000 in state funds to help complete the project and the city of La Crosse is contributing the remaining $16,000.

According to Wendy Hottenstein, airport development engineer with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the project will provide an additional hangar site to accommodate the many users on the waiting list for a location to house their aircraft. Also, the project will prepare plans and specifications to reconstruct several hangar taxiways that were built in the 1960s and 1970s and are in very poor condition.

Construction is planned for the summer of 2008.

La Crosse Municipal Airport has three runways that accommodate approximately 50,000 take-offs and landings annually.

For more information, contact:
Wendy Hottenstein, WisDOT Airport Development Engineer
(608) 261-6278, wendy.hottenstein@dot.state.wi.us