GYPSUM, Colo.—The Colorado Army National Guard has awarded a $33.5 million contract for construction of a new aviation training facility in the central-Colorado mountains.
The National Guard said Friday that Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Greeley won the contract to build the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site in Gypsum. Construction is expected to take a little more than two years.
The 101,600-square-foot aviation training facility will include classrooms, maintenance hangars, a flight operations section and lodging. Guard officials say the existing facility has been renovated over the past 15 years, but can’t be expanded further to meet new requirements.
American and allied pilots serving in the mountains of Afghanistan and other areas have trained at the high-altitude setting.
