St. Petersburg will begin repairing Albert Whitted Airport more than three months after Hurricane Milton substantially damaged the publicly owned facility.
City Council members unanimously approved a $1.2 million contract Jan. 9 to commence a hangar demolition and removal project. Crews will start building the 2025 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg’s track, which runs through the municipal airport, in the coming weeks.
Liam Hawkins, a pilot based at Albert Whitted, said unremoved storm debris nearly killed a colleague less than two weeks before the meeting. He noted recent wind gusts blew a twisted steel beam off a damaged hangar that almost struck a person standing next to an aircraft preparing for takeoff…