Business View Magazine - July 2023

257 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 7 MUSKOKA AI RPORT our summer months, when the district comes alive with lots of visitors and second-home owners. It’s also a major location for business and airside industry in the aviation industry.” O’Connor gave an operational overview of the airport. “It’s a large population, with a strong economy,” O’Connor informed. “Tourism is at the top of the list. We have a large population of second- home owners. We have the business aviation community for the airport as well. We are attracting some large, well-known companies from throughout the U.S. and Canada.” He continued that the Muskoka Airport has been around since 1933. It was also set up during World War II as a training facility for the Norwegian pilots training for missions against Nazi Germany. When the Nazis occupied Norway, hundreds of Norwegians managed