Business View Magazine | May 2019

129 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2019 THE DEL R IO INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT Del Rio International Airport is home to six on- airport businesses, which offer services such as fuel, pilot amenities, aircraft maintenance, and air cargo. It is also home base to 44 general aviation aircraft, and, unlike many small, U.S. regional airports, Del Rio doesn’t have a waiting list. “We have a lot of rotation on the hangar space, since we are neighbors with the Air Force Base,” Onofre explains. “There are a lot of Air Force personnel that have airplanes and they rotate their assignments every two or three years, so, currently, I have no one on a waiting list for hangars.” Del Rio International Airport has been a Part 139-certified airport since 2005, and serves as an airport of entry for international flights. “We are one of the authorized ports of entry, so we get a lot of the general aviation traffic that comes back from Mexico’s vacation destinations,” Onofre notes. “They make a quick turnaround for customs and fuel and then go back to whatever city they came from - charter planes, mostly. And because we’re sitting next to the border, we get all the