TX – Rise Aviation formally opened its new FBO terminal at North Texas Regional Airport (GYI) in Denison on August 1 in a new two-story, 10,720 SF building that was planned when the facility was known as the Lake Texoma Jet Center. Rise provides a ...
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LA – The Port of South Louisiana Executive Regional Airport (APS) sits alongside the Mississippi River roughly halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Reserve, Louisiana. The Port is one of the largest tonnage port districts in the U.S., and the airport’s business travel ...
OK – Claremont Regional Airport (GCM) near Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently completed construction of a 12,783 SF building containing 10 nested T-hangars. According to Meggie Froman-Knight, Executive Director of the Claremore Industrial and Economic Development Authority (CIEDA), all ten were leased with paid deposits within an ...
OK – The Aviation Sciences Institute at Southeastern Oklahoma State University recently took delivery of a simulator that will be used in its newly expanded curriculum that now includes airliner training. A team from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada-based Flightdeck Solutions (FDS) installed and set up the ...
MS – The Natchez-Adams County Airport/Hardy-Anders Field (HEZ) in Natchez, Mississippi, has no hangar space available and, as a result, is forced to turn away customers wishing to hangar their aircraft and add them to the waiting list. With 24-based aircraft on the field and ...
LA – Aviation Exteriors Louisiana has specialized in the niche market of painting commercial aircraft for over thirty years at its base at Acadiana Regional Airport (ARA) near New Iberia, Louisiana. After focusing exclusively on commercial aircraft for the first decade, the company expanded operations ...
LA – Chennault Park at Chennault International Airport (CWF) in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is situated in one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country with nearby access to rail, interstate highways, and a deepwater port. Its central Gulf Coast location provides strategic access to ...
AR – Pocahontas Municipal Airport (M70) in Pocahontas, Arkansas, had languished for years, experiencing no growth and very little funding to expand, but that appears to have changed. In response to exponential growth in fuel sales and traffic over the past decade, the airport is ...
TX – Mesquite Metro Airport (HQZ) in Mesquite, Texas, has seen growth of nearly 50% over the past few years. Aircraft operations had been averaging about 65,000 per year when they increased to 85,000 in 2020 and then broke that record with 100,000 operations in ...
AR – Conway Aircraft expanded its operation by celebrating the opening of a 10,000 SF headquarters and maintenance hangar at Conway Regional Airport (CXW) in Conway, Arkansas. The city of Conway and the company held a formal grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 19, ...