Controllers will also be using the Integrated Control and Monitoring System (ICMS), which consolidates information including navigational aid displays into one screen. The new 233-foot high tower is 82 feet higher than the previous tower and has an 850 square foot tower cab. The total cost to design, equip, and construct the new tower was approximately $100 million.

?Today marks a culmination of years of hard work by many people both inside and outside the FAA,? said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. ?This tower symbolizes the direction the FAA is taking by transforming the future of aviation with new technology.?   

When the Federal Aviation Administration?s (FAA) air traffic and technical operations staff moved into the new air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport they not only found themselves in a bigger, more modern building, they also discovered a permanent exhibit highlighting aviation history from the earliest pioneers and their aircraft to the first airports, navigation aids, the passenger experience, and the airport?s history.  

The exhibit includes approximately 300 aviation photographs, advertisements, and travel posters along with museum-style captions and headings. In addition, LaGuardia?s and New York?s aviation history is detailed in five photo montages. Below are just some of the many photos displayed.