Aviation Business Park Planned for Johnstown Airport

Republished from The Tribune-Democrat news coverage.

By Randy Griffith
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// Dec 9, 2022

A Curtis P-40 Warhawk greets fliers as they enter the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport.
A Curtis P-40 Warhawk, a plane that Johnstown flying ace Boyd “Buzz” Wagner flew, greets fliers as they enter the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. By Todd Berkey
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Natural gas lines are in place, with additional utility work and roadwork to begin in the spring for a 130-acre aviation business park at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport.

Plans call for the Mid-Atlantic Opportunity Park to be anchored by a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot maintenance, repair and overhaul facility for aircraft, including large jets.

“We believe we are centrally located in one of the busiest areas of the country as far as planes flying over us,” airport authority Chairman Rick McQuaide said Thursday, adding that there are no similar facilities serving the region.

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