Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport advisory board member Dan Fordice will resign from the facility’s management panel effective Dec. 31, the construction company executive and aviator said Monday.

In a brief appearance with Warren County supervisors, Fordice, the board’s longest serving member, didn’t specify a reason for leaving the board after 10 years.

“It’s time I moved on and let someone else have the opportunity to do that,” Fordice said, adding when reached later he’ll remain an active force in the Southern Heritage Air Show, held every other year at VTR.

Vicksburg, Warren County, Madison Parish and Tallulah own the Mound airport jointly, with each appointing a representative to the advisory board to oversee its daily operations. A fifth member alternates between the parish and the county every three years.

Fordice, vice president of Fordice Construction on Mississippi 27 and principal owner of the BB Club downtown, was first appointed to the board in 2000 as the “swing” seat and owns a hangar and leases space for personal aircraft on the airport’s grounds.

In January 2009, he was reappointed to a five-year term by supervisors through 2013. A replacement requires a majority vote of supervisors. Representatives include Fordice, Benny Terrell (Vicksburg), Craig Cox (Madison Parish), T.J. Williams (Tallulah) and Anthony Bridgewater (alternating).

In the recent past, the owners had funded daily operations at a $30,000 clip, which remained the same this year with an additional $96,000 to match grants for capital projects. Fordice had pushed for more funding from each owner to head off falling fuel sales receipts, from which the airport has derived the majority of its revenue. Actual costs to run the airport last year dictated $55,000 in support, Fordice said in June when owners listened to, then largely demurred pleas to put more money to the airport’s everyday, non-capital investments.

Projections of total income for VTR were downgraded by 30 percent to $360,695.84 in the 2010-11 operating budget. So far, Fordice told supervisors, revenue has run $5,000 to $6,000 ahead of last year.