Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 7

154 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 7 watch them – well, you can drive there and watch them too – but as Mason points out it gets kids onto the property, looking at the planes, asking questions, interacting with pilots, and it helps build a sense of community around the airport, as well. Bay City Regional is, above all, a working airport – overseen by the city that also runs the FBO. The airport was built in 1968, five miles from the heart of downtown Bay City. Today, it is comprised of the main box hangar, 55 T-Hangars, a terminal with a pilot lounge and office space, a 5,107-foot runway running North/South and a taxiway. They see between 14,000 and 19,000 operations a year, which includes business travel for several energy companies that have facilities along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; companies such as Conoco Philips, Chevron, and Williams Energy. Mason reports, “There is also a nuclear power Airport Manager, James Mason