CHARLESTON òòò½ÊÓƵ” Paramount Builders LLC, of St. Albans, West Virginia, on Wednesday was awarded the contract to build a new classroom building and a hangar for Marshall Universityòòò½ÊÓƵ™s Bill Noe Flight School at Yeager Airport following a vote by the Charleston airportòòò½ÊÓƵ™s governing board.
Paramountòòò½ÊÓƵ™s $6.79 million bid proved to be the lowest from a field of six qualified contractors, whose bids were all within about $500,000 of the winning bid, according to Yeager Construction Committee Chairman Allen Tackett.
Construction should get underway in August, according to Nick Keller, Yeager Airportòòò½ÊÓƵ™s director, keeping the flight school on track to open for classes in the fall of 2021.
The project entails construction of a 10,500-square-foot classroom building and a 12,000-square-foot hangar adjacent to the Charleston airportòòò½ÊÓƵ™s general aviation complex. Three classrooms, administrative offices, a multipurpose room, flight simulator facility, lounge and two pilot flight planning areas will be housed in the building.
A lighted road and underground utility corridor have been completed to the site, located off a parking apron and taxiway. In February, Marshall bought two new Minnesota-built Cirrus SR-20 monoplanes and a used single-engine aircraft for flight school use.
The new flight school is named in honor of alumnus Bill Noe, who won a Southern Conference swimming title while attending Marshall, and went on to become the chief operating officer of NetJets, the worldòòò½ÊÓƵ™s largest private jet operator.
Projects previously completed by Paramount include the 100,000-square-foot Huntington East Middle School; the 65,000-square-foot New River Community and Technical College complex, in Beckley; and the new 30,000-square-foot Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council headquarters building in Charleston.
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