SPRINGFIELD-BRANSON NATIONAL AIRPORT — The private planes
that you might associate with the 1% – actually affect every airline
passenger in Springfield.
General aviation accounts for 11% of the airport’s budget, or $1.4
million dollars. If you take that money away, officials say the airport
would raise money from somewhere else – like ticket fees.
The City of Springfield presents its five-year capital improvements
program to Planning and Zoning on Thursday. In that plan are projects
that focus on general aviation.
Officials say the current general aviation terminal is out-dated and
overwhelmed. They say adding new hangers to the terminal will keep
current customers happy and help new business take off.
“If an executive comes into an airport and the general aviation is
inadequate, the impression is we’re a backwoods town and not with it
like other cities,” says Mark Burgess, director of operations at OzAir, a
charter plane service. “That means a lot.”
Burgess flies executives from nearly 50 companies in the Ozarks.
There are 17 more who have their own jets: American Products.
Assembly of God, Bass Pro Shops, BKD, Bristol Manufacturing, CDP
Aviation (Coca Cola), Distribution Air (Redneck Trailer), Five Star Aero
(Peterbilt of Springfield), Foster Health Care Group, Great Southern
Bank, Hiland Dairy Company, John Q Hammons, Loren Cook Company, O’Reilly
Automotive, Ozark Air LLC (Petroleum Properties, Inc. – used to be
Webster Oil Co.), Prime Aire, and Tandem Air (Hutchens Industries).
To view the complete Capital Improvements Program, visit http://www.springfieldmo.gov/boards/planzone/pdf_files/cip1318.pdf
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