Business View Magazine | November 2019

163 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 TEXARKANA REGIONAL A I RPORT with local funds, here in Texarkana. By 2023, we should have everything completed.” “The terminal project and the taxiway project are going to take about five years,” he continues. “Beyond that, there’s a possibility we might lengthen the runway 500 feet. Also, we’d like to renovate all of our lighting systems to LED; that will save us a lot of money on our electrical bills. On the general aviation side, I’d like to see additional T-hangars, and additional corporate hangars. I’ve had an interested party ask for a ground lease for a hangar building they’re going to do flight training out of, and we’re in the process of getting that arranged. If we build another T-hangar, we would do that ourselves – it would be a ten-unit T-hanger with bi-fold doors. Most likely, we would fund that through the State of Arkansas, with a grant from the Department of Aeronautics; they would fund about 50 percent of that project. And any time I can get a new tenant in – a maintenance operation or an aviation-related operation - I’m open to do so. I’d like to do an air cargo facility here – either FedEx or UPS or other