Business View Magazine l January 2023

257 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 “Initially we were a state airport operated by the State of Oregon,” explains Haley Walker, Airport Manager for Grant County Regional Airport. “In the early 1980s, the county took over ownership and operations. I would say most of our flights are medical flights and fire aviation during the summer fire season. GRANT COUNT Y REGIONAL AI RPORT “We are also a general aviation airport, and our focus is to have a safe, operational airport because out here in rural Oregon those medical flights are constant and absolutely necessary for our community.” In 1862 Mr. B.C. Trowbridge built the first homestead in the area – shortly thereafter came the trading post, a few more houses –