Volume 1 Number 4 February 27,1989 I % Employees at the existing Indianapolis hangar perform an overnight maintenance check on a USAir DC-9. INSIDE page 2 The Board of Directors of USAir Group has approved a ninth stock offering under the employee stock purchase plan. page 3 Station management positions continue to be realigned across the combined system. page 5 For 27 years, Customer Service Agent Jerry Bardsley has enjoyed being a part of the team at Indianapolis—from the Lake Central days to the new USAir. $19.6 million maintenance hangar to be built at Indianapolis USAir will begin construction of a 149,450 square-foot aircraft-mainte- nance hangar at Indianapolis International Airport in July 1989, which will include a three-bay hangar and various line-maintenance shops. The new, $19.6 million facility replaces an existing mid-field hangar that USAir occupies and will be located in the newly-developed northwest quad rant of the airport. Construction of a new 10,000-foot runway and cormect- ing taxiway system is now underway, necessitating the move. According to Garner Miller, USAir senior vice president-maintenance and engineering, the company will use the new facility to perform line mainte nance and cleaning operations. The hangar is scheduled for completion in January 1991. Several specialized maintenance functions to be located in the new hangar will include a sheet metal shop, wheel and brake shops, parts cleaning, small parts repair, quality control and inspection, and a stock room. In addition, the new facility wall accommodate two narrow-body and one wide-body aircraft at the same time. “We also wUl have the space and capability to wash and polish aircraft simultaneous with the maintenance Continued on page 4

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