Business View Magazine Feb 2023

205 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 RALE IGH EXECUT I VE JETPORT training using Piper Cherokee, Piper Warrior, Cessna 172, and Cessna 182 aircraft, and a Redbird Flight Simulator. While the Odyssey Aero Club offers instrument training and commercial training in Diamond DA40 aircraft. Finally, the Wings of Carolina Flying Club offers a complete range of pilot training for members, including private pilot, instrument rating, commercial certificate, and multi-engine rating instruction in Cessna 172, Cessna 152 Piper Cherokee Warriors, and Mooney M20J aircraft. “Given that we have some good-sized flight schools on the field,” explains Heuts, “we have had a project on the books for a while to create bypass taxiways. We are finally in a place to start design and then construction in the summer. The bypass taxiways would allow students to sit do the runups, safety checks, and all the things that they need to be doing before they fly, without holding up other traffic.” “This project will probably come in at two million dollars. The South Development project was five million, and after that, we are going to look at the creation of two large hangars in that corporate area. New companies are moving into the Lee County and greater Triangle area all the time. We have high-tech companies like Apple, Google, and Meta as well as life sciences companies and many others,” he elaborates. Heuts does credit location for the growth in corporate traffic. The jetport is in the Research Triangle Region — an area that includes Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, and the Research Triangle Park, which is the largest research park in the United States, situated on 7,000 acres, with more than 300 companies and 65,000 workers. “We are going to continue to look at ways to develop capacity at this airport,” Heuts says. “We can help create the infrastructure to meet the needs of any company that wants to come in, and by doing that, we are supporting economic development in this region. About five months ago the state announced that they will be supporting the largest economic development project in the state of North Carolina, which