Aviation View | Volume 1, Issue 2

158 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 single runway, you essentially close the airport. At the same time, we are working with the airport to optimize other improvements like a TSA checkpoint expansion while the runway is closed for reconstruction.” Airports typically have a huge wish list for their projects but acquiring the funding to achieve all their aims isn’t always easy. Fortunately, at Jviation, the company can help align airport and FAA priorities to leverage funding for its clients. Because it understands the FAA and its priority ranking system, the company can really help advocate to get client projects funded. For all its success, Jviation is keen to point out that much of the credit is owed to its partners. “When you have great partners like the Jackson Hole Airport Board, 50 percent of the credit should go to them,” Vallin explains. “As a company, we owe a lot of our success to our clients because we have some of the most dynamic, thoughtful, innovative clients in the “Jackson Hole Airport is unusual in that it sits entirely within Grand Teton National Park,” Fiore says. “So not only must you meet FAA requirements but also park service requirements. In addition, the community is very sensitive to the environment, so it is very important to have the community support for projects at the airport. Interestingly, there is also a sole source aquifer beneath the Jackson Hole Airport that the EPA regulates, so all airport projects also need to go through an approval process with the EPA as well. Balancing meeting the needs of the airport with the surrounding environment is challenging, but can be accomplished through good communication. Currently, we are beginning a runway reconstruction project with a runoff capture system at the airport.” “We are an integral partner in helping the airport and the community be successful,” Ingram continues. “At the Jackson Hole example, we have to reconstruct their single runway in a very short timeframe because when you close a