Business View Magazine | July 2019

106 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 Founded in 2018, and just minutes from StanCraft’s corporate headquarters in Hayden, the StanCraft Jet Center is Coeur d’Alene Airport’s newest, full service FBO featuring two 30,000-sq.-ft. hangars, large enough to park up to a G-450; ramp space large enough to park multiple BBjs; fast and efficient full service fuel at competitive prices; line service; and elite concierge service with 24-hour assistance. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.stancraftjet.com Coeur d’Alene began as a fighter and light bomber training base for the Army Air Corps back in 1942. It was only the second Delta configuration air base ever built – an interesting design where the runways create a triangle, thus centralizing the facility. Although the Airport still maintains a similar configuration, it has grown and changed continually over the years to become a large and busy general aviation facility. Today, Coeur d’Alene is home to 225 aircraft and has a waiting list for hangars. Owned by Kootenai County and staffed by ten employees, it had 8,500 operations last year. “There is no cargo traffic or commercial aviation,” says Kjergaard, “but we see a lot of corporate traffic. We have around ten jets based on the field and most of them are Citations and Lear jet planes. We have a Challenger hangar on the field and a couple of them on the field. There is also talk about upgrading to even larger jets. Currently, we average about 15 or 20 percent of our total traffic as business jet traffic. We do own one T-hangar but our waiting list averages out to four years. We also have some ground lease hangars that have been