Business View Magazine | March 2020

190 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 and pilot supplies. Hagerstown Flight School provides flight training, and V1 Aeronautics offers flight training, air tours, and FAA testing. The Airport is also home to the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics education program for FAA-approved Aviation Maintenance Technicians, and a Redbird Simulator operated by SimFly, a producer and supplier of flight training materials and flight simulators. Even though there is a year-and-a-half waiting list for GA hangar space, Airport Director, Garrison Plessinger, says that the county has no immediate plans to build any new ones, although it is ready to offer ground leases to any private developer that wishes to build their own. Two major projects that are on the agenda for 2020 include a $6 million, 5,000-sq.-ft. expansion of the Airport terminal, which will begin in March, and an overlay of its main runway, 9/27, which will take place during the fall of 2020. On Plessinger’s long-term wish list is more land acquisition. Currently, there are about 40 acres • PRIDE • PURPOSE • PRESTIGE BE IN DEMAND! Hagerstown Campus School for Aviation Maintenance LEARN MORE PIA.EDU TWO-YEAR TRADE SCHOOL Forbes 2018