Flagler County Breaks Ground on New Airport Terminal

Flagler County is one step closer to a first-class executive airport with the groundbreaking for a new general aviation terminal at Flagler Executive Airport.

The 15,500-square-foot facility will accommodate the airport administrative offices, the Fixed Base Operator space that provides services to our visitors and tenants, its appurtenant facilities, public space, meeting space and restroom facilities. It replaces the current 40-year-old terminal building.

At the groundbreaking ceremony in late April, Airport Director Roy Sieger said it was an important step for the county.

“Not only is the Flagler Executive Airport an engine for the county, but it serves as the gateway of Flagler County and the community it serves,” he said. “The general aviation terminal is the next step in the evolution of transforming the airport into a premier location for people to visit and businesses to locate.”

Flagler County Commission Chair Andy Dance said the project has been a long time coming.

“It’s been a process to get to where we are today,” he said.

Offering a short history of the facility, which began as a Navy airfield during World War II, Dance said the airport has been an important economic driver for the county. He said the project to build a new general aviation terminal began in 2018.

“It’s been a process to get the funds necessary to where we can construct,” he said. “In the meantime as we work with our constituents, the residents who surround the airport to alleviate some of the concerns, we had a study done through our transparency dashboard where residents were able to log complaints.”

Dance said the county also conducted a survey of airport tenants and recently approved an airport overlay district plan for the 1,500-acre site.

“This summer we’ll be working on an airport master plan,” he said.

Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Paul Renner also spoke at the groundbreaking,

“It’s nice to come back and celebrate some of the things we were able to do as a state to support things here,” he said. “Infrastructure is so important to our communities. We’re never going to have a seaport, but we have an airport and we should make it the best it possibly can be because it will improve the economic development of our area and make Flagler County a more attractive place for tourism.”