CDOT Media Release

Ft.Collins/Loveland Airport Manager Named CDOT Aeronautics Division Director

David Gordon, manager of the Ft. Collins/Loveland Municipal Airport, has been named Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Aeronautics Division Director. His appointment is effective April 9.

Gordon has worked in the aviation sector for the past 35 years. He served for 24 years as manager of the Jefferson County Airport in Broomfield, and since 2002 he has been manager at the Loveland/Ft. Collins airport.

Gordon is very familiar with the CDOT Division of Aeronautics and its many programs. He was appointed by Colorado Governor Roy Romer to the Colorado Aeronautical Board, which oversees the CDOT Aeronautics Division, where he served from 1996-1999. He was a founding director and served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Airport Operators Association.

In his new position, Gordon will manage seven CDOT staff members who work directly with Colorado public-use airports as well as Colorado and national aviation associations to help improve aviation safety and operations.

The CDOT Aeronautics Division also oversees an annual discretionary grants program that awards revenues from aviation fuel sales taxes to Colorado public use airports for infrastructure, safety, and programmatic improvements. The most recent round of these grants, announced in February, 2010, awarded $5.7 million for nearly 50 Colorado airport projects. The funds were used to leverage local and federal funding for a total value of nearly $96 million.