Business View Magazine | November 2020

194 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 more competitively than the FBO did. It’s one of the reasons that the Airport is, essentially, self-sufficient, except when there’s a major expenditure that comes up.” “When we need money in an emergency situation, like equipment going down, we have to go to the town of Wicasset, who owns the Airport, for money,” notes Airport Manager, Rick Tetrev. “But as regards operations, we’re self- sufficient for the most part. We have self-service gas, and we sell quite a bit.” “It’s an excellent gas stop,” adds Steve Williams, Chairman of the Airport Committee. “Fuel prices are competitive.” One of the Airport’s mainstays are flights in and out of Wicasset by families dropping off and picking up their children who attend one of the many private schools and summer camps in the area. One company, PlaneSense, is a fractional aircraft ownership company that flies PC-12s, and the new PC-24 jets. “They bring their children for camp or school,” says Tetrev. “And we get a lot of revenue from that type of service. Unfortunately, COVID has cut out a lot of that, this year. For example, in August, I would normally have had about 75-100 of those flights come in. This year, I had two. In September, I had four. October was empty.” According to Tetrev, the only good news to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic was the sale of three GA hangars that had been vacant for several years. “We sold them in a period of about a month-and-a-half to people from New York who moved up here,” he relates. For many years, the Airport also hosted the Texas Flying Legends, an assemblage of vintage, World War II aircraft. “They had three locations in the country,” says Williams. “Wiscasset was their summer location; the other two were Houston and Minot, North Dakota. They brought six WWII fighter aircraft that provided an opportunity for a number of aviation groups to