Maurice, Iowa — If all goes well, a new airport will begin serving the area this fall or winter.
Harold Schiebout, Sioux County Regional Airport board chair says that the airport property continues to be abuzz with activity. He gives us an update.
He says they had hoped to have more of the airport project finished by now, but things are still going well.
He says the fairly decent weather of the last month or so has helped a lot. He tells us what’s been happening lately.
He says they plan to do a grand opening and ribbon cutting at some point, but if the date has to get pushed back very much, they might do that in the spring rather than have people come out in the winter for it.
Schiebout tells us they’ve hired a manager.
He says the old airports will be sold by the cities that own them. He says they’re just getting started with that process now.
The new airport will be almost equidistant between Sioux Center and Orange City, at about four and a half miles from each community. It’s in the section to the southeast of the “Million Dollar Corner” at the intersection of Highways 10 and 75, or a little more than a mile northeast of Maurice.
