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AIRPORT PROFILE
" So, the three buildings that we
currently have sit on about 14 acres
of airport property ... about 240,000
square feet of actual warehouses that's
been built. In the future, we have the
space for another million square feet,
and about another 14 to 16 aircraft
parking positions, " Oakley said. " The
UPS operation, the Amazon operation,
the existing warehousing that the
airport has is already about 1 million
square feet. So, in the future, we could
see as much as roughly about 2 million
square feet of on-airport air cargo
warehousing and processing. "
RFD is currently in the planning
phase for building a fourth cargo facility
building.
" That's the building that's going
to bring in more of the European
design, stuff that you see in Europe
and actually in Asia in terms of the
large-scale processing of the technology
being really utilized to move the
freight through automated systems
from the time it gets off the aircraft
going through the facility to the time
it loads the truck, being able to utilize
technology throughout the process and
reduce that processing time and dwell
time of the facilities, " Oakley said.
Terminal Upgrades
Over the last seven years the airport
has also been modernizing their
airport passenger terminal.
" It was a $27 million project to both
add on to our existing terminal, but
also realign and redevelop that interior
space to make it more conducive to
the existing passenger flows and future
passenger flows, " Oakley said.
The original terminal was built
in 1986 for ground boarding of
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19-to-30-seat regional, turboprop
aircraft servicing Minneapolis and
O'Hare out of Rockford. Oakley
said the current air carrier RFD has
been seeing over the last 15 years is
Allegiant and they've been operating
MD-80s and Airbus 320s and 319s.
The airport's
largest gate can
now handle up to 300 passengers
and gives the passengers more room
to spread out and allows for cleaner
passenger flow. 
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