More than 18 months after it was revealed that Cessna was seeking corporate approval to build its largest ever Citation service center in Wichita, Cessna announced last month the project is a go. Construction is set to start before year-end on a 443,000-sq-ft facility at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport on a 150-acre site leased to Cessna by the Wichita Airport Authority. Upon completion of the new $60 million facility, scheduled for summer 2003, Cessna will initially employ an additional 500 to 600 workers, a figure expected to double during the facility’s first five years of operation.
Cessna said the service center will be double the size of the current building and will house multiple aircraft service bays, numerous component repair and overhaul shops, a business center for customers and office space. To get an appreciation of the building’s size, Cessna described it as being 1,600 ft long, equivalent to two-and-a-half city blocks.
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