Ornge Air Medivac announced that it would open a 24-hour base to help cut the airlift response time to Toronto hospitals. This plan was cancelled in 2013. In 2011–2012, local politicians and the contracted airport management were endeavouring to expand the main runway from to acquire additional and larger corporate traffic. This was met with much opposition, as the existing surrounding community is already in close proximity of the runway and the flight paths. The surrounding community asserts that increasing activity at an airport closely nested among residential communities is irresponsible. The surrounding community is also concerned that they are not being represented appropriately by the local standing committees. The proposal to expand was delayed at a public meeting on December 5, 2011, as there was not enough room in the Oshawa Council Chambers to accommodate all of the public that showed up in opposition. A new meeting date was to be set sometime in January 2012. After the meeting and great opposition from the general public, it was decided in August 2012 that the expansion project would be cancelled. There has been no revival of the expansion plan since. In 2016, the City of Oshawa approved a $6 million plan to reconstruct runway 12-30 that would involve an estimated four-week closure of the airport to all fixed-wing aircraft. The construction started on September 5, 2017, and the runway reopened on October 10, 2017. The airport added new LED edge lights and PAPIs on runway 12-30 to improve night and low advisability conditions. During this time Nav Canada approved and started construction on a new control tower to the northwest of the original tower that was built over 50 years ago. The new tower was estimated to cost $9 million and opened for use in June 2018. On November 1, 2018, Nav Canada announced the closure of Buttonville's control tower, re-built in 2006, and weather office effective January 3, 2019. The terminal area forecast station is being installed at Oshawa Executive and scheduled to be operational on the same day Buttonville shuts down its facility. Facilities Oshawa Executive Airport is managed and maintained by Total Aviation & Airport Solutions under contract from the operator, the City of Oshawa. TAAS also operate and control the fuel pumps on the North Apron. Commercial radio stations CKDO and CKGE-FM, licensed to Oshawa, and CJKX, licensed to Ajax, operate from studios on the Oshawa