How do I reinstall Airport Utility?

I am having trouble with my airport connection on just my Macbook (all other Mac devices fine). It seems to drop the IP address it has been assigned for no apparent reason, and then self assigns an address that doesn't work.
I noticed that the size of my Airport Utilty application 5.5.2 is 2 MB smaller than on my MacBookPro (34.6MB vs 36.6MB) and wondered if I have a corrupted file somehow?
Therefore is there any way that I can overwrite and re-install the latest software version?

Apologies for not thinking to mention this before, but AirPort Utility has nothing at all to do with your MacBook's Wi-Fi connection. It's only use is to configure an Apple AirPort base station.
It might help to reset the connection settings on your Mac using these steps one at a time until the problem is resolved, recognizing that, depending on your problem, not all of these steps will make sense:
1) Use the AirPort menu bar item to turn AirPort off, then on again.
2) Try to select your Wi-Fi network from the AirPort menu.
3) In the Network panel of System Preferences delete the AirPort item from the left column, then add it back.
4) In the same panel as (3), define a new location and see if you can make that work.
5) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease".
6) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( not <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.
These steps may not help, but they'll only take a couple of minutes to try. Before you try these, if you have any special network settings on your Mac for things like DSL credentials, note all your network settings, because the latter steps will destroy them. If you got all the way to the last step, if things don't work any worse than before, you can trash the saved SystemConfiguration folder.

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