Front Range Airport will celebrate on Aug. 9 the completion of the first hangar in a new module, hoping to grow business at the airport and bring in more corporate jets.
Front Range Airport aviation director Dennis Heap said the airport has been working on Module 2, a 40-acre hangar development, for about five years.
The first hangar was built as a “spec” hangar, which can be adapted to attract tenants. It is a project of AmJet2, a business owned by developer Michael Buehner-Coldrey, and is large enough to accommodate a Gulfstream IV in each of its six units, Heap said.
He expects tenants already based at Front Range Airport may move to the new hangar.
The airport also will hold a groundbreaking for a second hangar, which will be occupied by Star West Aviation, a flight school and charter operation.
Module 2 “opens up a lot of sites for the development of large hangars,” Heap said, adding that as many as 20 hangars could be built there. “We’re going from single-engine airplanes, piston airplanes, to jet aircraft. Just part of the national growth.”
Heap hopes the Module 2 also will allow future growth of Aviation Technology Group, which plans to open manufacturing facilities at Front Range Airport.
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