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March 11, 2025

Group of flying enthusiasts pay $1M for 61.1-acre CT airport

courtesy, Town of Plymouth An aerial view of the Waterbury Airport in Plymouth.
By Michael Puffer

A group of friends and flying enthusiasts recently joined together to buy the “Waterbury Airport” in Plymouth for $1 million.

The airport, at 173 Mt. Tobey Road, is little more than a grass runway, ringed by trees on a 61.1-acre property with a single, 1,700-square-foot hangar built around 1930. It’s used for a handful of small, propeller-driven planes owned by recreational pilots.

The property was acquired by NForty1 LLC – a play on the airport’s “N41” designation by the Federal Aviation Administration – in a deed recorded by the town on Feb. 14.

The seller was Waterbury Airport Inc., whose principals are John Seymour and Kenneth J. Kilcourse, both of Brookfield. The company was formed in 1974.

The new ownership group includes Seymour, as well as three limited liability companies whose principals are James and Debora Ouellette, of Plymouth; Robert Lagasse, of Wolcott; and Christopher Carman, of Bethel.

“It will pretty much be status quo,” said James Ouellette, who has been involved with the airport for 30 years and built a house next to it in 2007. “It’s a nice, little country airport. I just want to keep it like this for as long as I’m alive because there’s not too many spots like this anymore.”

Ouellette said he and his daughter maintain three planes at the airport – two Cessna airplanes and a Stinson. There are five total planes that “tie down” at the airport, Ouellette said. There had been 15 to 20 before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ouellette said the new owners hope to boost use of the airfield . 

The partners don’t plan many improvements, Ouellette said. They might like to build two hangers to replace two that fell apart with age and had to be demolished. Other partners may build houses for themselves on a piece of the airport land, he said.

The airport property is zoned for low-density, single-family development. The airport is an ongoing, non-conforming use, said Margus T. Laan, Plymouth’s director of planning and economic development.

That means the new owners can carry on using the property as it had been, Laan said. But any changes or improvements that result in an increase in use might need to clear local zoning officials, Laan said. 
 

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