Business View Magazine | March 2020

170 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 round out our financing needs.” Another project concerns the purchase of a small piece of land to help provide some more protection for Runway 10R/28L, which is used by GA traffic. Last year, the Airport shifted the runway a thousand feet to the west in order to open up some space for airfield expansion. “On the land purchase, we’re real close to finalizing that,” says Ploehn. “We’re working with the FAA to get their blessing on it and then that will be wrapped up. We were timely in moving that runway because our cargo operations have really taken off in the last two years and we may be looking to build some more cargo ramps in that area. It used to be an RPZ (Runway Protection Zone) and now that the runway’s been moved to the west, there’s room to build additional cargo ramps.” In addition, there is an ongoing study concerning crosswind Runway 07/25. “The engineers are looking at that, right now, to determine what