Business View Magazine - Nov 2023

289 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 11 JEFFERSON COUNT Y AI RPARK Pittsburgh airports that are busier and more expensive and harder to get in and out of.” Thaxton continues that the airport has a lot of business potential. “We still have about 10 acres of undeveloped land that could be used for aviation or non-aviation,” he reveals. “That is something we’ve been actively looking at and talking about options.” The airport is open to the idea of corporations building hangars, and as Thaxton notes, there are options for that as well. “We’ve got room for growth still,” he adds, although he admits the airpark isn’t quite ready for commercial regional options, as that’s a different ballgame and a different market, requiring another class of airport. He continues that the runway was lengthened to 5,000 feet about 10 years ago. “As it stands, that’s about the maximum length we can do geographically,” he says. “A bigger issue that we’re wanting to address is lengthening our taxiway to make it a full parallel taxiway. That’s one of our future goals