Business View Magazine | October 2019

158 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 who were flying Beech 99s, which did not have pressurization, or flight attendants, and people were not real thrilled with the nine-passenger airline with no onboard service and boardings started to drop. We finally lost service in 2016. We no longer have any commercial service. We are now a general aviation airport.” Huron Regional Airport is owned by the city of Huron, which provides half of its operations budget. There are three full-time employees and part-time workers are hired throughout the winter. There are 34 home-based GA aircraft and a waiting list for hangar space. Cooper has already started to look at building new hangars, and he hopes to have them large enough to house anything up to a 787. The idea is to offer ground leases for private developers to come in and build them, themselves. “Skyways has a pretty ambitious plan,” Cooper admits, “but so far, everything they have done has turned out exactly how they planned it. They have submitted their request to the FAA to get their Part 145 certificate, and once they do get that, they will be flying their aircraft out of here for maintenance,