Business View Magazine Dec-2022

154 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 whom provide commercial service so we’re kind of unique in that we get to have this regional airport that has about 52 planes based here. Most of them are general aviation, but some are corporate jets for Waffle House, Ag-Pro, which is the largest John Deere dealer in the country, Checkmate, a weapon magazine, and medical equipment manufacturer, and Flowers Foods which is the second-largest bakery in the country.” “These are organizations on the field or adjacent to it in the industrial park. There is also a trailer manufacturing facility, Turner Furniture, and other businesses that are just down the road and operate corporate aircraft here at the airport. We have several jet operations at the airfield, but I think we strike a very good balance between the light general aviation community and corporate operators - I think what we try to do is maintain that balance and try to grow both segments of the market.” Originally a World War II Army airfield, Thomasville