Meriden Markham Municipal Airport is seeking to build five new aircraft hangars on the Wallingford side of the Meriden-based airport. Wallingford’s Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to review the airport’s special permit request Wednesday, pending administrative approval from the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission. The airport, on Evansville Road, covers 109.5 acres of land in Wallingford, according to town records. The hangars will be paid for through a $671,000 Federal Aviation Administration grant and are aimed at meeting pilot demand, Castillo said. The new hangars are part of an airport revitalization effort in recent years that included a $1.4 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport improvement program to repave the southern section of its taxiway. Last fall, eVertiports met with airport and city officials to discuss providing potential charter services using electric, vertical takeoff aircraft. eVertiports hopes to install a compact landing pad that would open the facility up to chartering taxi flights to the surrounding region.
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