Business View Magazine May 2023

239 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 negotiations with Gillette Community College to start both a flight program and an A&P mechanics program. The county, which owns the airport, also owns the fuel farm and we will be negotiating a new lease agreement for Gate One.” Last year Northeast Wyoming saw 23,520 enplanements. United Airlines, through SkyWest, offer commercial service to Denver twice daily. The rest of the traffic is corporate travel, which Chatfield would say accounts for 85 percent of general aviation, and then leisure. Another major partner in the field is Guardian Flight, which is a Life Flight Company and offers medical transit for Gillette. The working relationship with the airport has been a good one, they rent office space, use some of the facilities, and of course, account for significant fuel sales. “So, right now we have an empty FBO terminal. We constructed a new one thinking that NORTHEAST WYOMING REGIONAL AI RPORT when we get a larger FBO up and running it will already be in place,” says Chatfield. “It was completed in 2022 and we will be officially opening it on July 1st. At the same time, we are moving forward with improvements to other aspects of the airport as well. We have a project that has just gained approval from the Airport Board and the County Commissioners which we have been calling our South Side Hangar Development Plan. We are doing a study right now looking at what sort of infrastructure work would be necessary to open up that section. And what we are hoping to construct there are large hangars – corporate hangars.” “We are really excited about the possibilities that this is going to open up because we are at the point now where everything we have is full, with people building their own hangers, and a huge waiting list. Last month we also entered into a lease agreement with an individual to