Business View Magazine Feb 2023

201 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 RALE IGH EXECUT I VE JETPORT “I ran the economic development program in the county and served on the Airport Authority for 12 years,” explains Bob Heuts, Airport Manager for the Raleigh Executive Jetport. “They brought me on for three months to manage the airport. That was six and a half years ago. I was familiar with the finances - all the grant programs, budgets, and things like that were not foreign to me, and it was a good transition.” He goes on to point out that the airport is only 20 years old and has seen consistent growth. They now boast over 200 aircraft on the field with most of them being smaller turboprops, but with a distinct rise in jet traffic over the last couple of years. Raleigh Executive Jetport specializes in corporate and recreational flights into the Research Triangle Region — an area that includes Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, and the Research Triangle Park. Situated just 8 miles