Aviation View Magazine | Volume 1, Issue 4

31 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 CORPUS CHR I ST I INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT Base Operator (FBO), Atlantic Aviation; a national chain that operates at hundreds of airports across the country, and services general aviation and private aircraft. Smith reports, “We also have two companies that work very closely together: Driscoll Children’s Hospital and Sterling Aviation. They provide medical support and transport for children all across the South Texas region. Oftentimes they’ll be doing emergency flights, airlifting doctors to another part of Texas to attend to an emergency involving a child, or they fly in sick children from across Texas to Driscoll Children’s Hospital. They use both fixed-wing and helicopters. We also have Halo Flight which operates as an emergency medevac helicopter for outlying towns and ranches.” Another valuable business onsite is the National Weather Service that has a key station at CCIA and provides critical information especially during natural disasters and weather events.