Wiggins Airways’ new $3 million expansion that included adding a fourth hangar to the aviation facility is complete. PROCON in Manchester was the architect and construction manager for the project, which will be used for aircraft storage. Wiggins Airways is located at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester.     
 
The 23,240-square-foot hangar can accommodate various types of general aviation equipment and is designed to handle multiple aircraft. The pre-engineered hangar has exterior metal panels and a pitched metal roof. The floor of the hangar will be coated with a high gloss white, non-slip floor finish.
  
Metal clips and expansion joints allow the new hanger to be physically connected to the existing building, while permitting the buildings to expand or contract up to two inches for thermal movement and enable the firewalls to be freestanding. An internal corridor allows Wiggins Airways’ employees to pass from the hangars to the terminal building without having to go outdoors.
 
PROCON began construction on the hangar expansion project in September 2013 and Wiggins Airways moved the first aircraft into the new hangar earlier this month.      
 
The hangar expansion is the third project PROCON has designed and managed for Wiggins Airways. In 1999, PROCON completed Wiggins Airways’ full service general aviation facility on the East Ramp of the Manchester Airport. In 2004, PROCON completed a fuel farm that services the Boston-Manchester Regional Airport, and is operated by Wiggins Airways. The facility consists of two 210,000-gallon steel storage tanks with off-loading stations and pumping stations for refueling tanker trucks.
 
PROCON is an architectural design and construction management firm specializing in commercial, hospitality, institutional, industrial and multi-family residential projects and founded in 1935.

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