Business View Magazine | August 2019

127 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 THE COLORADO SPR INGS A I RPORT future plans. To put it in perspective: a 60,000-sq.- ft. hangar can house four C130 Air Force aircraft all at the same time and still be able to close the doors. They’ll have over 200 employees at the Airport, now. So, that’s great growth there. And the World War II Aviation Museum is well into construction of a 40,000-sq.-ft. hangar that will allow them to expand their mission. And they’ve got another 40,000-sq.-ft. hangar that they will start shortly after this one’s done. So it’s exciting to see what aircraft they’ll be able to bring up here to put in the museum.” The Airport’s terminal is also in the final stages of refurbishment after a fire gutted part of the building, last April. “We ended up with an insurance settlement of $8.8 million and have redone, entirely, the third floor administrative offices and the second floor public side,” Phillips reports. “While painful, and on top of every other thing we were trying to do, the silver lining is that we have done some upgrades that have received nice comments from the public about how we’ve remodeled it in 2019 style instead of 1994 style, Explorers Welcome. VisitCOS.com We believe in visionaries who can turn skyscrapers into mountains. Where ambition isn’t “climbing the ladder,” it’s scaling the wall. We believe in skipping the traffic and getting to the fun faster. We believe in explorers.