Plans have been submitted for a new office, security and small passenger terminal building for Blackpool Airport.
The new structures would be built immediately behind the existing buildings at the entrance to the airport on Squires Gate Lane.
The council stated that it wanted to rebuild the old airport infrastructure in order to make the airport more commercially successful and create new jobs.
The airport, which is closed to commercial flights, is a base for North West Air Ambulance and private flights.
Charter flights
The current administration and security buildings are both well over 20 years old and need to be modernized, the council said.
The proposed new buildings would improve arrivals and departures areas and a larger security checkpoint would house new X-ray and scanning equipment.
The passenger facility would enable the airport to increase the number of corporate, executive and charter flights it can handle to up to 45 passengers at a time.
Steve Peters, Managing Director of Blackpool Airport, said: “Over the last five years we have put a lot of work in-house to make Blackpool an attractive airport again. We are now reaping the rewards of this work with an increase in corporate and business jet flights as we accommodate larger cabin class aircraft and welcome new customers to the airport for the first time.”
This is the latest in a series of plans to modernise the airport infrastructure.
A planning application for a new road and hangars was submitted last year and is expected to be decided by Fylde Council’s planning committee later this summer.
Future plans for the airport include new executive hangars to the west of the airport and a solar farm on land south of the main runway.
A new fuel depot that will enable the use of sustainable and alternative aviation fuels, as well as a battery storage facility, are also being considered.
Last year, around 39,000 flights took off and landed at Blackpool Airport.
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