KISSMMEE, Fla. — The Kissimmee Gateway Airport is on cloud nine after receiving a boost from the Federal Aviation Administration. The airport just secured $10 million from the FAA Contract Tower Competitive Grant Program to build a new air traffic control tower.
“This has been a long process. It’s been over 15 years that the city’s been trying to obtain a new air traffic control tower,” said Shaun Germolus, Director of Aviation at Kissimmee Gateway Airport.
Germolus said the current tower opened in 1997 and is outdated. The floor of the cab of the current tower is 40-feet tall, and the new one will have the cab sit at 85-feet tall with a total height of 115 feet…