Business View Magazine | November 2020

179 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 THE WI TTMAN REGIONAL A I RPORT it is home to 174 based aircraft, multiple corporate flight departments, and over a dozen aeronautical businesses that service a wide variety of GA uses. “The Airport has long been a training ground for the next generation of pilots,” adds Schell. “And to this day, we have a very strong flight training presence, not only with Fox Valley Technical College’s flight training program, but also with two private flight schools - Aviation Services and Discover Flight.” Since 1970, the Airport has also hosted EAA’s annual AirVenture event, perhaps the world’s biggest and best-known celebration of aviation, when every year, enthusiasts from over 90 countries bring over 10,000 aircraft, including warbirds, vintage planes, homebuilts, seaplanes, aerobatic aircraft, and ultralights to Wittman Regional, making it, for one week each summer, the busiest airport in the world. In fact, in 2019, attendance at the AirVenture event surpassed 642,000 aviators, and their friends and families, creating an economic impact of $170 million AirVenture 2019 - Courtesy of Jessica Voruda AirVenture 2019 - Courtesy of Jessica Voruda