Business View Magazine | April 2019

85 AUQUIER AIRPORT HE TEAM Airport, we are included in its capital improve- ment program to underwrite the county’s share of grants from the FAA and the State Depart- ment of Aviation,” Darrah adds. Currently, there are 145 GA aircraft home- based at Warrenton-Fauquier. “We have all our hangars full and have a waiting list, just like every other airport around here,” Darrah notes. “Our intent is to build more hangars with ground leases when we get a grant for the site development and there’s a private entity willing to invest in building the hangars. We have four hangar sites operating under that condition now and, with our grant eligibility to help defray the cost of site development, they’ll need to pick up the county share, which amounts to about 20 percent of the grant.” Darrah adds that there are two other GA air- ports nearby and remaining competitive is a priority. “We’re all friends and colleagues, but