Kingston Airport

7 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 KINGSTON AI RPORT There’s also a helicopter maintenance company: AOG Heliservices, Inc., which is an approved Transport Canada maintenance organization located at the east end of the airport. It offers avionics, painting, interior refurbishing, modifications, and upgrades, as well as custom configurations of every type and much more. Its hangar area is some 3,800 square feet, with a component room of about 600 square feet. AOG Heliservices also offers environmentally controlled storage areas, offices, and hangars. It takes a team Desjardins extolled the team effort that makes the Kingston Airport’s operations possible. “The airport is owned and operated by the municipality,” he points out, “but we work incredibly closely with tourism (Tourism Kingston, the local tourism information office), and we can’t say enough about their support in collaboration concerning the airport.” On the economic development side, the Kingston Economic Development Agency is part of the City. Again, we work incredibly closely with them to make sure that we’re servicing all of our business clients in our community.” Winterstein returned to the topic of the improvements of four years ago. These also included upgrading the instrument landing systems and expanding the terminal by some 40 percent. He also spoke of economic factors, including supply chains. “One of the things we’re seeing more broadly in Kingston is the impact of supply chains,” he remarks, “and very positively, as we see companies wanting to co-locate here.” One such industry is the aforementioned health sector, as Winterstein notes of one of the region’s biggest economic drivers. “It’s not just health care services,” he clarifies. “It’s health and life science technology, so again, co-locating with the universities and the hospitals on one side, but then