IL – The DuPage Airport (DPA) board of commissioners and staff gathered with officials from the City of West Chicago, DuPage County, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to cut the ribbon on a new $1.3 million state-of-the-art CBP facility. Construction was completed in ...
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MO – The Northwest Missouri Regional Airport (EVU) in Maryville will be looking at plans next spring for a new community hangar that will allow for jet storage, which is currently not available at the airport. City managers said during a recent City Council meeting ...
NE – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska announced last month that the National Guard Bureau has committed to use its funding to pay for part of the cost of a planned reconstruction of the runway 18/36 at Lincoln Airport (LNK) in Lincoln, Nebraska. The ...
SD – Huron Regional Airport (HON) in Huron, South Dakota, in July became the seventh FBO base and tenth operating facility for Revv Aviation, a rapidly-growing provider of FBO and other general aviation services throughout the Midwest and formerly known as Carver Aero. The other ...
MN – Park Rapids Municipal Airport – Konshok Field (PKD) in Park Rapids, Minnesota, is another example in the ongoing and wide-ranging story of mid-size airports that have an unmet demand for hangar space. The Park Rapids Airport Commission learned in late July that the ...
OH – Aerospace, defense, and national security firm Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is building a 96,000 SF aircraft maintenance, repair, and modification facility at Dayton International Airport (DAY) in Dayton, Ohio. The development is a collaboration with SD Hangar Partners, who will be performing the ...
IL – Several new construction projects are either planned or already underway at Illinois Valley Regional (VYS) in Peru, Illinois. The projects are in response to rising demand and are intended to attract new businesses to the Peru area. A high-priority project is extending the ...
ND – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded 17 Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants totaling $16.2 million to North Dakota airports for various enhancements, repairs, and equipment. North Dakota’s U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer announced the awards last month and provided a detailed breakdown of ...
KS – The Kansas state legislature announced that in April, Governor Laura Kelly signed HB 2239 which created one tax credit for aviation employees and two tax credits for aviation businesses. The credits are intended to encourage both in-state and out-of-state workers to join the ...
WI – Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is responding to customer demand by continuing to expand operations across the company, and recently announced a $55 million investment in its completions facility at Appleton International Airport (ATW). The company is building a 73,000 SF paint hangar that will ...