Katama Airfield Trust
  • Home
  • Mission
  • Donate
  • Get Involved
  • Trustees
  • In the News
  • Contact
Select Page

Katama hangar is about to come down

Sep 9, 2020 | In The News

By George Brennan  MV TIMES

The airport hangar project at Katama Airfield is getting closer.

A dilapidated World War II hangar at Katama Airfield will be demolished in the next two weeks to make way for an updated hangar, town administrator James Hagerty told the board of selectmen Tuesday.

The board, which typically meets on Mondays, was meeting on Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday. Hagerty said the bids on the project are expected on Sept. 18.

“COVID slowed everything down, and the construction moratorium slowed everything down,” Hagerty said. “That hangar has been there a good amount of time. It will be demolished in the next two weeks to make way for what the town approved when the town appropriated a year and a half ago.”

In 2019, Edgartown voters approved $950,000 to engineer, demolish, and build a new hangar. Then in January, Katama Airfield received a $190,000 gift to be used to pay for steel components and a hangar door.

“So I think it’s good news the project is coming full circle,” Hagerty said of the upcoming demolition. Chair Arthur Smadbeck and selectman Margaret Serpa agreed.

“That is good news. It’s been a long process,” Serpa said.

In other news, the board of selectmen got an update from Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative (CVEC) executive director Liz Argo on the overall impact of the cooperative, as well as specifics about two projects involving Edgartown.

Argo estimated CVEC has saved member towns $17 million. In Edgartown, the amount the town benefited dropped from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020 by more than $23,000, between the Katama Airfield and Nunnepog Well solar arrays. “Katama produced very well, you made more money than we would have anticipated,” Argo told the board.

Nunnepog made slightly less electricity than anticipated, but the town’s minimum return is guaranteed, Argo said.

Recent Posts

  • Under the Radar at Katama Airfield
  • Current Project
  • How Katama Airfield escaped the clutches of developers
  • The new hangar has a roof!
  • Katama Hangar – Photo Updates

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • September 2022
    • May 2022
    • October 2021
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • May 2020
    • January 2020
    • April 2019
    • March 2019
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • January 2018
    • August 2016
    • February 2014
    • January 2005

    Categories

    • In The News

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org

    Contact Us

    12 Mattakesett Way
    Edgartown, MA 02539
    Martha’s Vineyard

    KATAMA AIRFIELD WEBSITE
    Copyright © 2019 Katama Airfield

    • Katama Airfield Website
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    The Katama Airfield Trust is an endowed preservation fund recorgnized by the IRS under 501C3 Plan.
    12 Mattakesett Way | Edgartown, MA 02539 | Martha's Vineyard
    © 2019 Katama Airfield Trust