Business View Magazine | November 2019

170 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 business partners, the Redevelopment Authority and the County of Washington, the facility will expand its current infrastructure to include a runway extension to 5,500ʹ, parallel taxiway extensions, and additional hangar sites. “We have recently purchased some acreage that was once called off-airport,” McGowen reveals. “We are in the process of developing that for a combination of corporate hangars and some additional T-hangars. On the northside, the County owns enough property to develop some large hangars there, too. Our goal is to keep increasing the number of turboprops and jets for which we can provide services on the field. We have a 5,004’ runway right now, 100‘ wide. That will take any corporate jet that is out there. But we also want to provide a longer runway so that they can go out with full fuel even on a hot day.” Although future expansion projects are anticipated to forge a new direction for the Washington County Airport, their existing amenities are no less impressive. “Our facilities are a fundamental