by Tom Chillemi
Steel recently was erected for a new 4,400 square-foot terminal building at Hummel Field airport in Topping.
The Virginia Department of Aviation (VDOA) will pay for 89% of the cost of the $1.7 million terminal (about $1.5 million). The remaining $187,000 will be split equally by airport owner Middlesex County and terminal builder DelCorp, whose president Oscar Barber is a longtime aviator. Each will pay $93,500.
The current airport terminal is a small portable building that is decades old, said Barber.
The new terminal will be a public building, with a 600-square-foot conference room….
