Business View Magazine - Nov 2023

275 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 11 CONROE-NORTH HOUSTON REGIONAL AI RPORT The airport plays host to more than 300 aircraft, 240 hangars, a control tower, two FBOs (or fixed-based operations), a general aviation terminal building, a U.S. Army Reserve Aviation unit (the First Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment is stationed at the base), more than 20 businesses and several government agencies as well, as Brown informs. “We’re a little bit of a unique airport,” he shares, explaining that in 1945, the airport was converted primarily to civilian use. “We were not a surplus airport.” He adds that the airport—situated on more than 1,300 acres, at an elevation of not quite 250 feet—grew from humble beginnings as a small airstrip during the Great Depression, not 90 years ago. Montgomery County purchased it from a private owner, working with the CAA (or Civil Aeronautics Authority, the predecessor of the Federal Aviation Administration or FAA) to augment the facility and build up its runways.