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Centre-Piedmont-Cherokee County Regional Airport
Skies, Runways Remain Full
The Centre-Piedmont-Cherokee County Regional Airport is open for business-and thriving! And according to Donnie Free, general manager, the airport adds to its full agenda over the coming year a parallel taxiway and eight new hangars. Free said the additions were made possible through a 100-percent funded $5.5 million grant through the Federal Aviation Administration. The taxiway project should start in the spring, and the hangars should be completed in early 2021. Free noted that the airport had ten hangars constructed in 2016, and the additional eight will bring the total to 18. “We 8
have them all leased,” said Free. “We have a lot of renters from Georgia, including the Cave Springs, Cedartown areas, and also local renters as well.” In 2000 when representatives from Centre, Piedmont, and Cherokee County formed the airport authority, pooled their efforts, and carried the Centre-Piedmont-Cherokee County Regional Airport project to completion in 2006. Complete with a 5,500-foot runway, it was the first federally funded Alabama airport since 1992. The airport is located on some 300 acres of property off Highway 9 south of Centre. cherokee-chamber.org
