Telephonics has a 30-year lease with options for 50 years on the last remaining space available for lease within the airport fence. It will begin construction the new facility in July, 2009 on a 22,000-square-foot hangar next to the base while ompletion is scheduled for February 2010.
The firm has decided to build a radar-testing and service center at the airport because of the Coast Guard’s Aviation Logistics Center, which is next door at the base. The ALC is responsible for overhauling most of the aircraft for the Coast Guard.
While the company’s core mission will be to service and test radar for Coast Guard aircraft, it will also develop a business here for its wireless aviation communications division.
Telephonics, which is headquartered in Long Island, is a leading aviations communications firm.
