Pilots head to an airplane Tuesday morning belonging to one of the few commercial operators at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn. They work for Wiggins Airways, a cargo carrier used by United Parcel Service that has an operations center a few hundred feet away.
Jonathan LaBonte, chairman of the airport board and de facto manager of the airport since March, looks around Tuesday morning at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
Mark McGhee reaches inside his toolbox while working on an airplane engine Tuesday morning inside his hangar at Dirigo Aerospace Solutions at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
The new fuel storage facility at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn has far more capacity than what is needed for the small, municipal airport.
Airplanes are lined up on the runway Tuesday morning at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
The tail of an airplane that is lined up on the runway Tuesday morning at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
In this Sun Journal photo from 2013, Lufthansa Technik's group director of operations for Lufthansa's Lockheed Project watches workers as they rebuild a Lockheed L.1649A Starliner aircraft at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport inside a custom-built hangar. After 10 years, the company gave up on the project.
There is plenty of new mowing and plowing equipment at the Fernand A. Giguere Equipment Storage Building at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
Mark McGhee, left, works on an engine Tuesday morning inside his hangar at Dirigo Aerospace Solutions while talking with pilot Bill Shelley, right, at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn. McGhee works on Shelley's float plane that is in a hangar on the other side of the airport.
Mark McGhee works on an airplane engine Tuesday morning inside his hangar at Dirigo Aerospace Solutions at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
August W. Henningsen, chairman of the executive board of Lufthansa Technik AG addresses the crowd assembled in the newly erected hangar on Nov. 20, 2008, at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport. In the foreground is the Lockheed L.1649A Starliner aircraft that was the subject of a long and costly restoration project that was never completed.
Jens Bischof, Lufthansa's vice president for the Americas, marvels at the interior of the cockpit of this Lockheed L.1649A Starliner aircraft inside the newly built hangar at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn during the 2008 ceremony celebrating it's restoration project. The goal was to restore and fly it to Germany in about two years. After dozens of years and millions of dollars spent, the project was put on hold and most everything was packed up and shipped back to Germany.
The tail of an airplane that is lined up on the runway Tuesday morning at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn.
There is debate about what should be done with the house that former pilot Maurice Roundy owned where two vintage aircraft stood for many years. Now, the building is full of old restaurant furniture and other items the airport is storing inside it.
