Business View Magazine | February 2019

101 FBO CHARTER MRO Hawthorne is proud to partner with the city of Tuscaloosa by serving the General Aviation needs at the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport. ees; we’re supported by facility maintenance, the finance and accounting department, legal, and various other staff members. And we’ve been trying to better determine how much is funded by the city, so that we know what our target is to become self-sufficient. We have a variety of initiatives, most importantly, estab- lishing an Airport Committee to advise and oversee Airport operations. That’s one of our overall goals – getting this Airport to be less of an impact on the taxpayers of Tuscaloosa.” Another goal is constructing more GA han- gars. Currently, there are approximately 105 general aviation aircraft home-based at Tuscaloosa. “That’s a mixture of helicopter, singles, twins, turbos, and jets,” Powell notes. “We’ve been 100 percent occupied for the past 10 or 15 years, and we have a waiting list for single engines as well as jets. There’s nothing worse than knowing people are trying to come onto your Airport, to build your operation and make it more of a viable