Permit pulled for new hangar at Air Capital Flight Line

Plans are in place for another new building on the Air Capital Flight Line in southeast Wichita.

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According to city-county records, a $7 million building permit has been pulled for construction of a new aircraft hangar at 4174 S. Oliver on the ACFL property.

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The permit holder is identified as Jimmy Baker Construction BC and the planned building is identified as 172J.

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Representatives of ACFL did not respond to requests for additional information from the WBJ on Monday.

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The property is comprised of the sprawling industrial and office campus once occupied by the Boeing Co.

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Air Capital Flight Line was formed when the land and buildings were bought by a group of local investors and developers headed by Dave Murfin and Johnny Stevens in late 2014, following Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) closure of its remaining local defense operations.

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The company’s commercial operations had previously been spun off into Spirit AeroSystems Inc. in 2006.

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Spirit (NYSE: SPR) is among the primary tenants at ACFL, where leased facilities house production of the forward fuselage on the 787 Dreamliner and a new one built in 2019 allowed for expanded local work on the 767 program.

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The company has also taken up the 293,000 square-foot hangar most visible at the property’s main entrance, though the work done there has not been publicly detailed.

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Other existing tenants at the ACFL, which is adjacent to McConnell Air Force Base, include the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University and Bombardier.

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NIAR in September announced that it had joined a program to help convert existing Boeing 777-300 passenger jets into cargo aircraft in work that would be based from its operations on the property.