Business View Magazine | September 2022

230 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 then start marketing them because many people weren’t aware that there were hangars available. The effort worked so well that by Aug 2015, all of the 146 hangars were full and they’ve been full ever since. In fact, there is now a healthy waiting list of about 50 people. The tie-downs were just filled last December, and there is a handful of people on that waiting list, as well. General Aviation Company does an outstanding job as the FBO at Fullerton Municipal Airport. According to O’Reilly, “They’ve been on the field for a long time, maybe 30 years. They take care of all the traditional FBO services – fuel, maintenance, catering, rental cars. They also have a big VIP hangar that they can use for overnight parking and, of course, ramp space.” The Fullerton Municipal Airport Terminal Building is a 1950s-era building that started as a small administration building. A control tower was added in 1959, and a restaurant in the early ‘60s. O’Reilly describes the building as a “bit of a hodgepodge, adding, “When I came here in 2013, we were not compliant with a lot of ADA accessibility requirements, so it was a big charge to get those compliance issues on the first floor taken care of. We did have federal funding available, so we put together a project called the Phase One Terminal Rehab that we completed in 2014 and then we reopened in 2015.” In the same time frame, Fullerton Municipal selected a new restaurant operator for the Wings Café, which is a popular dining spot and a big asset to the airport. The restaurant has been doing business under different names for several decades and a lot of people have fond memories of going there through the years. “It’s a fantastic place to just sit and watch,” says O’Reilly. “You can see almost everything on the airfield. Brian and Sherry took over in 2015 and did an awesome renovation of the restaurant in an aviation-theme, with industrial-type finishes COME FLYWITH US! FULLERTON’S AIRPORT CAFE COME SEE THE PLANES UP CLOSE LANDING AND TAKING OFF Funnest Breakfast in Town! 4011 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton, CA 92833 714-735-8432 www.wingscafefullertonairport.com