PREFERRED VENDOR/PARTNER n Sandusky County Visitors Bureau www.sanduskycounty.org The Sandusky County Visitors Bureau promotes a vibrant region where people live, work, and thrive. With prime manufacturing sites, executive access to the Sandusky County Regional Airport (S24), major interstates, and rich community assets, we connect opportunity, innovation, and quality of life in the heart of Northwest Ohio. as businesses seek alternatives to commercial airline schedules and routes. Flight school operations are another opportunity. “If we could potentially get a flight school up and going, if there’s somebody that would be interested, those types of things,” Farmer says. County funding limitations shape the approach.“We’re county based, so the county’s not going to be like, we’re going to get county dollars to go out and put a flight school in. They’re not going to allow us to fund a flight school or that kind of thing. It would all need to be private investment.” Avionics and maintenance facilities remain absent from the current service mix, creating potential for aviation businesses seeking market entry. The board prioritizes immediate opportunities while remaining flexible about sequencing. “Now that we have our lease arrangements settled with our medical helicopters, we would move forward in attaining some tenants for the remaining spaces in those hangars,” Farmer explains. “We have 10,000 square feet of heated available hangar space currently, which is in two 5,000-foot segments. Our main priority would be to get those handled and rent them as soon as possible.” Farmer’s pragmatic assessment captures the airport’s philosophy: “There’s not one thing that takes precedence over the other, it’s everything in the pie, and it’s just a matter of which piece of the pie we can get moving first.” With solid infrastructure, available space, and a region poised for continued manufacturing expansion, Sandusky County Regional Airport stands ready to convert potential into operational growth. The foundation is built. Now comes the execution. 238 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 11
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