NAVFAC Southwest Awards $28 Million to Build MCAS Yuma Hangar
Navy News Service
Story Number: NNS120921-20
9/21/2012
By Mario T. Icari, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest Public Affairs
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest awarded a $28 million contract, Sept. 6, to Harper Construction Company Inc., San Diego, Calif., for construction of an aircraft maintenance hangar at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma.
"The Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course brings over 15,000 Marines twice a year to MCAS Yuma for comprehensive air support mission planning and training," said Lt. Cmdr. Angelique McBee, NAVFAC Southwest resident officer in charge of construction at MCAS Yuma. "This hangar will drastically improve the airfield rotational capability to support various squadrons during the training cycle."
Harper Construction Company Inc. will construct the new transient universal hangar facility. The hangar will support the training and maintenance operations of transient rotary wing aircraft (MV-22) deployed to MCAS Yuma and will be compliant with F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft maintenance requirements including a high bay space, crew and equipment space, administrative space and special access program facility areas.
"This universal hangar will give MCAS Yuma the ability to house and maintain any aircraft, up to the size of the MV-22, allowing the installation much greater flexibility in the way they do business," said Scott Knutson, NAVFAC Southwest project manager for this project.
Work will be performed in Yuma, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by July 2014. NAVFAC Southwest is the contracting activity.
"Harper Construction founder Ron Harper is a graduate of Yuma High School and his family retains many local community ties," said McBee. "This project will bring much needed local jobs, in a county with the second worst unemployment rate, 27 percent, in the country."
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