A new home for Army Aviation Support Facility #3, 1/169th Aviation Regiment and the 935th Aviation Maintenance Detachment is set to open at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah on Saturday, November 3, 2007.

The hangar is among the largest military construction projects the Georgia Army National Guard has undertaken over the last two years. The 78,000 square foot facility houses the unit’s administrative function along with more than 62,000 square feet devoted to storing, maintenance and shop functions for the unit’s six CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

The cost of the new hangar was approximately $16.4 million. R.C. Construction Company of Greenwood, MS was the primary contractor for the project with numerous subcontracting projects awarded to businesses in the Coastal Georgia area.

Prior to the new hangar, the 115-person unit was operating out of 1950-era Air Force hangars since it arrived at Hunter AAF in 1979. The unit deployed to Afghanistan in 2004-2005 and was recently called to fight wildfires in South Georgia in 2007.