The Carson City Airport

THE CARSON C I TY A I RPORT on 76 acres of land provided to Carson City by three prominent local families and has grown to over 531 acres with the thriving Carson City Industrial Airpark, the vibrant manufacturing and industrial hub located north of the Airport. As a general aviation/reliever airport for the Reno- Tahoe International Airport, and the primary airport for the state capital, we exist to ensure not only access to state government, but also access to the national airspace system.” The Airport is operated by the Carson City Airport Authority, a quasi-government agency; the City of Carson City owns the underlying land. It was run as a part-time operation by the Airport Authority until about 2008, at which time it hired its first full- time manager. “I’m the third one,” Moen notes. “The Airport Authority has two employees – myself and an airfield operations and maintenance technician who has been here about ten years.” According to Moen, the CCA is self-sufficient, with all its income – a combination of tax revenues from aircraft on the field and property taxes on the airfield’s privately-owned hangars - contributing to Airport operations. “The Airport Authority doesn’t own any of the hangars or hangar property,” he explains. “We own the ground underneath, so the individual hangars are either owned by associations or individuals. Those individuals and associations pay a property tax fee that’s remitted back to the Airport.” Currently, there are over 300 home-based aircraft at the CCA, including single- and double-engine airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, jets, helicopters, gliders, and ultralights. There are over 220 hangars and, based on the number of phone calls Moen gets about hangar space, he reasons that the demand exceeds the supply. “Being that we don’t operate the hangars, I can’t tell you what the vacancy rate is; we refer them back to the individual owners,” he remarks. “But I know that there have been some sales transactions since I’ve been here. We also have six new hangars just completed last month; they’re about 3,000 square feet each – box style hangars.” Moen considers the CCA an extremely business- friendly facility and promotes it far and wide as such - especially to potential corporate migrants from the Golden State, next door. “Nevada is a state with lower taxes and less regulation than our neighbor to the west,” he avers. “And it’s been on a tremendous upswing since Tesla built the Giga- factory in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, TRIC, as it’s called, which is about ten miles from Carson City and the largest industrial park in the world – over 80,000 acres. Nevada has seen a migration of companies to this area to grow their businesses and to be able to do business in California and the Pacific, without being under the burden of the taxes and regulations that they’re experiencing.” Blockchains, LLC purchased 68,000 acres in the last year to create a block-chain-based smart city pictured Carson City, Nevada