Airport is no longer buzzing

Posted on October 17, 2018

For approximately five days after Hurricane Michael left a trail of destruction in northwest Florida, the Perry-Foley Airport became a city within a city – serving as a staging area for nearly 3,000 Duke Energy employees and subcontractors working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers in Florida’s storm-battered Panhandle.

After serving its purpose for just shy of a week, the local staging site was decommissioned on Monday, according to County Airport Manager Ward Ketring.

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