Currituck commissioners considered hangar elevations for the Elizabeth City State University project at Maple Commerce Park.

The project includes the construction of classrooms, a hangar, a maintenance area and a storage hangar at the Currituck Regional Airport at 230 Airport Road in Maple. The land is owned by ECSU and all buildings will be ECSU property.

The commissioners are responsible for approving the heights of the hangars.

The project includes 1,300 square meters of hangars – which can accommodate ten or more aircraft – and 400 square meters of classrooms.

Construction will begin this fall and is expected to be completed in time for the fall 2025 semester.

The county hopes to simultaneously put its own plans for additional hangars and a runway project out to tender so construction can proceed in parallel.

“We’re also trying to look at how we can put everything together in a way that makes sense long-term,” airport director William Nelson said at the commission meeting on Aug. 5. “We’re trying to make sure we’re planning for future hangars, future terminal buildings — we’re really trying to look beyond today into the future, especially with the hope that the Mid-Currituck Bridge gets built and our traffic increases significantly more than it already has.”

Nelson said the county airport is seeing more and more traffic. “We had 30 jets in 7 days,” he said. Although some were the same planes landing multiple times, he said it was a busy week.

“My parking lot was full of rental car returns every morning,” he added. “We don’t usually see a start to August like this.”

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