Business View Magazine | June 2019

204 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 terminal last year and will complete the runway renovations by the end of this year. “We also have an upgrade to our fueling system which will bring self-serve jet fuel and self-serve low-lead fuel, under contract,” Hart reports. “We have future plans to reconstruct the Industrial Park Drive, which is the main thoroughfare through the commerce park. We have finished a number of projects, lately, like the upgrade to the terminal building, a backup power system, a 500-square- foot expansion to one of the hangars and a new facility for the AIRHeart critical medical transport units based here. There are 34 aircraft, including two multi-engine craft that have hangar space here. We also have corporate hangars that are filled, and so, we are at 100 percent capacity. But there are plans to build more hangar space in the near future.” There are competitive local airports within a 50-mile radius - Dothan to the North and Panama City to the south. Both of those also have commercial traffic, so they are a different type of airport. But then there is also the Tri-County general aviation airport which is 20 miles to the west, and Donalsonville Municipal Airport in Georgia. “The facilities we have far exceed the two airports east and west of us,” says Hart. “Our runways are better, our instrument approach systems are better, our terminal building is better, the location is geographically perfect for north, south, east, and west traffic is better, so we feel