Aviation View | Volume 1, Issue 2

26 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 airport has expressed an openness to selling. If he did, it could add another layer of protection for the city of Grass Valley and the surrounding communities. “Having those helicopters up here at the base would be just incredible,” Edwards acknowledges. “But we have to purchase that property first. One of the things we are really trying to do is highlight the importance of public safety and what this airport can do, and potentially getting that piece and expanding the airport for those operations would just be immense.” Keeping wildlife off airport property was the goal of a recent infrastructure project. In 2018, the installation of a fence eight-foot in height around the perimeter of the airport property was completed. The project was divided into two phases, with California-based Crusader Fence Company handling the first phase. A company out of Idaho did the second phase, which entailed the installation of all the airport’s