Constrution Review Online
28 March 2025
United Airlines has begun construction on a state-of-the-art maintenance technical complex at Orlando International Airport (MCO). The $315 million complex is intended to serve the airline’s Florida business as well as the economic growth of the region, company and local officials say.
Occupying an area of 32,900 square meters (354,400 square feet), the new complex will accommodate two hangars, warehouses, workshops, office buildings, special purpose work areas, and staff parking. As per the proposed layout, the complex will be capable of handling six narrow-body aircraft or a combination of one wide-body aircraft and three narrow-body planes simultaneously.
The complex is going up on the airport’s west side along Tradeport Drive, where United already operates one of its two existing hangars in Orlando. When finished, the new facility will consolidate more than 1,000 maintenance employees on a single campus, taking the place of multiple facilities now in use. United will continue to operate its existing maintenance operations while the new complex is under construction. Following the transition, the existing warehouse will be vacated, and a hangar originally built in 1954 will be demolished.
