Business View Magazine | July 2022

202 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 t Hood “It’s kind of like plowing a field and planting seed,” muses Mike Wilson, Executive Director of Aviation for the City of Killeen Airports, as well as the Airport Manager for the Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport. “And even though we are not seeing a whole lot of fruit out of it yet, we can see the growth starting and we can see things starting to happen. It’s just a matter of time, so that when the airline industry does recover and they put more planes back in the air, we are going to be positioned in a perfect place to reap the harvest.” This forward way of thinking epitomizes the direction Killeen-Fort Hood Airport (GRK) has taken since Wilson claimed the helm, and is all about moving the airport, and Central Texas as a region, into the future – poised to take leadership. In fact, GRK saw above pre-COVID numbers this spring and was one of the first regional airports in the country to return to those numbers, all this despite losing one of their commercial airlines. United Airlines, which has grounded routes across the country thanks to COVID and fuel worries, not to mention a AT A GLANCE KILLEEN-FORT HOOD REGIONAL AIRPORT WHAT: Joint-use airport shared with Robert Gray Army Airfield WHERE: Killeen, Texas WEBSITE: www.killeentexas.gov/548/Killeen-Fort-Hood-Regional-Airport REAPING THE AVIATION HARVEST