They succeed Iftikhar Ahmad, who left in May 2010 to become New Orleans’ director of aviation, and former deputy aviation director Walter Krygowski, who left in January to join Ahmad in New Orleans.
Slaybaugh, originally from Michigan, is moving his family from Rochester, N.Y., where he has lived for 30 years. He has been Rochester’s aviation director, a county economic development manager and a private economic development executive in Rochester.
Turner has served since December as the Dayton airport’s interim deputy director. He has been with the airport since 2002 and previously spent 21 years with the Air Force, including service as a flight mechanic and rising to superintendent of quality assurance at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Also on Tuesday, the federal government said it plans to put its new air traffic control tower at Dayton International into operation at midnight June 4, months after construction of the $21 million tower was completed. The Federal Aviation Administration said the switch-over to Dayton International’s new air traffic control tower will be done at the same time that its controller staff is reduced by approximately two-thirds.
The FAA will relocate, from Dayton to Port Columbus International Airport, part of the air traffic control operation that handles aircraft 30 to 50 miles out from Dayton. The new tower will handle the closer traffic, local takeoffs and landings. Aircraft farther out than 50 miles will remain the responsibility of an FAA facility at Indianapolis.
The FAA has done similar consolidations in other cities. The change in June will reduce Dayton’s current staff of 38 controllers to 12 with the transfers to other locations, said Barry Payne, the FAA’s air traffic manager for Dayton.
Danis Building Construction Co., of Miamisburg, began building the 254-foot-tall tower in 2007.
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