Part of a 235,000-square-foot hangar at Tucson International Airport, built and once occupied by Lockheed Martin, may be getting a new tenant.
The Tucson Airport Authority said Friday that SkyWest Airlines may be moving into about a quarter of the hangar's space. The deal is part of a sublease agreement by Bombardier Aerospace, which owns the building.
The deal must be approved by the TAA board, which is expected to vote on the plan Tuesday.
The 33-acre site, at 1555 E. Aero Park Blvd., features the maintenance hangar, divided into four bays with runway access. Bombardier began vacating the hangar complex in 2004 when it moved its aircraft-completion operations to Wichita, Kan., and Montreal, where the company is based.
A startup company, DunnAir Business Jet Completion Center, occupied the facility for a time last year but failed for lack of capital in early 2007.
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Airport officials would not comment on specifics of the SkyWest lease until the board meeting Tuesday. A SkyWest spokeswoman also declined to comment.
The asking price for the buildings, which sit on land leased from TAA, was $15.9 million last year. The lease rate was $2.22 million annually, or $8.75 net rental cost per square foot.
SkyWest currently operates a hangar at the airport, near the corner of East Valencia Road and South Park Avenue. Dick Gruentzel, the airport's vice president of finance and administration, said that site is about 28,000 square feet and has been occupied by SkyWest since July 2002.
St. George, Utah-based SkyWest Inc. owns SkyWest, which operates more than 1,700 flights per day for United Express, Delta Connection and other air carriers.