Alaska Airlines is expanding its aircraft maintenance with a new 125,000-square-foot hangar facility at Portland International Airport that will allow maintenance technicians to work on up to three narrowbody aircraft or two widebody aircraft at a time.
On June 16, Alaska Airlines broke ground on the building, which will be adjacent to the airline’s Horizon Air Ops Center & Maintenance Hangar. It will be on Port of Portland-owned land, at 7646 N.E. Airtrans Way.
According to city of Portland records, the estimated project cost is approximately $135-150 million. The facility will add about 125,000 square feet of indoor aircraft maintenance space for Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines’ fleets and 60,000 square feet of space for offices, engine, machine and sheet metal shops and support areas…