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 ...
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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 ...
TN – West Star Aviation announced in July the opening of a newly acquired and renovated hangar at Lovell Field Airport (CHA) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The building comprises 19,200 SF of hangar space and 7,000 SF of shop space that will be used as a ...
GA – The runway at Vidalia Regional Airport (VDI) in Vidalia, Georgia, had needed repairs for several years due to cracks in some of its concrete panels. Airport management originally applied for funding to upgrade the runway because of growing demand, and $2.2 million was ...
SC – Rock Hill York County Airport (UZA) in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a full-service general aviation reliever facility in the Charlotte, North Carolina, region that services all segments of civilian aviation except scheduled commercial flights. Catering to businesses and corporate flight departments, private ...
AZ – Virgin Galactic, an aerospace and space travel company, announced it has signed a long-term lease for a new final assembly manufacturing facility for its next-generation Delta-class spaceships. The manufacturing facility will be located adjacent to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and will have the ...
AZ – California-based Davcon Construction is expected to complete Phase 2 of its private hangar project at Mesa, Arizona’s Falcon Field Airport next month. Construction on the complex, which can accommodate the latest ultra-long-range business jets, began in March 2020. Phase 1 of the project ...
NM – The first tenant to the county jetport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico was approved by Doña Ana County. Burrell Aviation plans to construct a new air cargo handling facility, cold storage, distribution center, and aircraft maintenance hangars at the Doña Ana County International ...
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 ...