Business View Magazine | December 2020

242 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 R ocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA) is celebrating 60 years as a trusted, public-use airport in Broomfield, Colorado. The Airport, which opened in 1960, is owned and operated by Jefferson County and situated midway between Denver and Boulder on U.S. Highway 36. The closest airport to downtown Denver, RMMA covers 1,700 acres and has three runways, the longest of which is 9,000 feet. It is the fourth busiest airport in the state, with over 170,000 total operations in 2018. Airport Director Paul Anslow reports, “2019 was one of our best years ever. We had our second Fixed Base Operator (FBO), Sheltair, heavily under construction and everything was looking positive. Rolling into 2020, it was looking like it was going to be the best year ever and then, in March, COVID-19 happened and everything was up in the Preparing for the Worst, Achieving the Best