Business View Magazine Jan-2019

81 capabilities. So, it’s experienced some steady growth all within the general aviation, community airport model.”Today, Scappoose Industrial Airpark cov- ers 196 acres with a single asphalt, 5,100-ft.-long runway. Allison adds that in the Airpark’s early days, it was a place where the local residents could “go out anytime, prettymuch unfettered. If there wasn’t an aircraft in a pattern, you could do drag races on it, the folks who’ve been around awhile tell me,”he reports.“That’s no longer the case, though. Since 9/11, it’s become a fully-fenced facility with control gates and security. But we do try to keep it available to the community and open it up as best as possible. We have some community events in the summer– fundraisers for various entities.We also just carved out an area in the north end of the field, at the com- munity’s request, as a viewing area. It’s a small park with some picnic tables and a parking lot. It’s a place where people can hang out and be close to the approach end of the runway to watch the airplanes come and go,which was always a popular pastime.” Scappoose is strictly a general aviation airport; it hosts neither scheduled commercial passenger, nor cargo flights. Its air traffic consists mostly of small, private aircraft, corporate jets, agricultural aviation, and flight training.“We do have an occasional mili- tary flight,” says Allison.“And helicopters; we have a gyrocopter manufacturer at the Airport that uses it.”Currently, about 130 GA aircraft are home-based there.“And that’s the capacity of our hangar facili- ties,”he adds.“We have approximately 135 hangars for rent of different sizes that we own and lease to the public and they’re consistently full.We actually have a waiting list at this point, but seeing as how the market is fairly steady,we don’t see explosive GA growth.And since we’re fairly close to capacity, with not a huge demand forecast,we have no plans at the current time to build any additional, basic GA, T-hangars.We would probably build-to-suit a larger