New airport manager meets with committee

News Staff

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 | midnight

The city’s new airport manager, Kerry Ahearn, met the city’s Airport Advisory Committee Oct. 7, her second day on the job.

Community Development Director Brok Armantrout, who had acted as the manager for four years as part of his job, introduced Ahearn to the committee members during their meeting. The committee last year recommended a full-time airport manager be hired to accommodate the four tour operations and more than 200 private planes stationed there.

Ahearn is a graduate of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a licensed commercial pilot.

“She’s already got two things on me right there,” said Armantrout, who will maintain supervisory authority over the airport as director.

For 10 years, Ahearn worked in operations at Morristown International Airport in New Jersey, and recently worked at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn.

She told the committee that in New Jersey, she handled grant writing, managed tie-downs and leases, and was in charge of security.

In Connecticut, she managed a sound abating program.

She came to Boulder City, she said, because she “missed the general aviation side and was sick of snow.”

Next month, Ahearn will help hire an airport operations technician— another full-time position converted from the contracted airport coordinator position Mike Minshall fills.

Minshall said he plans to apply for the job.