Business View Magazine l October 2022

230 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 10 federal grants. We are lucky that we have a great terminal in place, and we do all the work to keep up our certification, in case commercial traffic comes back. We currently have a ticketing counter and waiting area, our FBO operates out of the terminal, and we have a pilots’ waiting lounge – there is also a restaurant. We have a master plan in place, and we’re working hard to move forward with all the recommendations. One of the plans looking into the future, for example, is to lengthen our runway by about 700 feet. We have been purchasing property around the airport to help make that happen.” Other recent infrastructure improvement work includes a resurfacing of the terminal apron, which was a $2.2 million project, and the current project which involves rehabilitation of the fuel farm. This will be a $1.05 million project that includes new tanks and self-service pumps. Completion is expected sometime in 2023.