Business View-Oct 2023

238 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 area,” Cowles points out, “Our airport covers all of central South Dakota, as far down as the border of Nebraska and up to just outside the border for North Dakota – that’s pretty much our service area for the airport. And we provide several services, whether it be agricultural spraying, which is a big thing around here, of course, or a medical flight. We operate a medical flight service here for Avera Hospital. By ambulance, you – if you had somebody who needed some life-saving procedure, it was 2 – 2 and a half hours in an ambulance down I90 to either get to Sioux Falls or Rapid City to get to a large medical facility and now we can fly you directly there.” Flying ahead “I would say that this is probably the economic center for this region of this state,” he continues. “We have a very large pheasant hunting season every year. It starts in about a month and we are a large center for those folks coming in who want to do pheasant hunting. As I mentioned, we are also agricultural spraying. We operate a lot of