Business View Magazine | November 2019

172 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 to developing a business and manufacturing park to be christened Skypointe. Airports have traditionally been viewed as public utility providers, with little potential to develop market opportunities. But business is often easier with an airport on site. It’s an ideal location for expansion, and companies on airport land benefit from access to cost-efficient services that aren’t found in other industrial settings. Washington County Airport is always receptive to business development opportunities and will work with potential aviation business partners to accommodate their needs. “On the corporate side, which we emphasize a lot, the County leases land to corporate entities that build and own their own larger corporate hangars,” Griffin explains. “We also have 34 T-hangars and a waiting list of about half of that. Those hangars are not for large corporate aircraft; they’re for smaller airplanes. The County owns them and leases them out. The T-hangars hold business airplanes, too. A general aviation aircraft used for business will lease a