Sitka's existing seaplane base is 65 years old. While the $38 million price tag to replace it has risen, the city plans to cover most of the construction and the land purchase with federal grant money.
The Sitka Assembly is moving forward with a long-planned seaplane base project. While new estimates project the cost at more than double original predictions, the assembly is going for a fully-realized project rather than a more affordable scaled-back option.
“And the access we have right now compared to other areas in Southeast is pretty poor,” Schuyler said. “I guess I fully support the full plan for this, as it directly affects my job and a lot of people in the community, and it would be a lot greater, or it’d be a lot more problematic, for how our project operates. If we didn’t have aircraft services.”Member Kevin Mosher said $600,000 was a lot of money, but not when you were leveraging it for another $10 million.
“If we do anything less than the full build, we run the risk of people not finding it enticing to use our facility and choosing instead to go somewhere else, or choosing not to fly here,” Himschoot said. “So I think that’s a really important factor.”though at assembly and school board meetings in 2021,
“It’s gonna be a great opportunity for Sitka,” Mulligan said. “We’re gonna go from having the worst seaplane facility in Southeast to the nicest one.”“There’s times that I didn’t even want to get in the plane, and I’d go out flying…to bring somebody to the hospital or somebody needs to go see their family if there’s a death in the family or something, or Thanksgivings coming up. And then this weather… just changes in minutes,” Mulligan said.
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