Kinze to Build Airport Hangar

Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg, Iowa is planning a corporate aircraft hangar at The Eastern Iowa Airport. A lease-purchase agreement with the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission says Kinze will build a 12,000-square-foot hangar and sell it to the airport for no more than $1.5 million. The airport will then lease the hangar to Kinze for 25 years with options to extend, according to a story in The Gazette in Cedar Rapids.

Marc Beltrame, a Kinze representative, said access to aviation is an important business tool for Kinze. “Many of our customers and dealers are located in small towns across the country,” Beltrame said. “This will allow us to critically access them in a timely manner.”

Kinze owns a corporate plane at the airport, and two other aircraft will be housed in the hangar. Beltrame said Kinze’s full-time corporate pilot also will have an office in the new airport hangar.

Beltrame told The Gazette that Kinze has ordered a building from Sukup Manufacturing of Sheffield, Iowa. Sukup is also an Association member.

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