Business View Magazine Feb 2023

216 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 It isn’t just real estate that benefits from location, location, location. Airports can certainly benefit from being conveniently located. Air passengers looking for a central point in which to travel to surrounding attractions will look for airports that can provide this ease of travel upon landing. For Lake Wales Municipal Airport, the close proximity to tourist destinations including Orlando and even Miami makes it a continuous draw for private flights in and out. “Our airport has a variety of general aviation,” explains Amanda Lomneck “Everything from regular small private aircraft up to medium-sized jets for business charters or tourism. Since we’re centrally located in the state, it’s easy to get pretty much anywhere from here. One of the main attractions in Lake Wales is Bok Tower, and then a lot of people come to Mountain Lake Golf Course.” “Besides general aviation, we have some military operations that take place here. They’re not based here, but they come here to train. We have a little bit of agriculture spraying as well as PPGs and skydiving seven days a week. We have pretty much everything except commercial service at this airport,” Lomneck describes. Lake Wales Municipal Airport in the city of Lake Wales, Florida, is a publicly owned airport that operates in conjunction with the city departments, as its own FBO with fuel farm, hangars, and pilot services. There are two runways, the main runway is 5400 feet while the secondary runway is 4000. There is a full-length parallel taxiway as well as a paved apron. There is a privately operated flight school, Fun Flight Training which has two instructors and also handles private recertification flights. JUMP Florida has both a skydiving facility and an aircraft I