Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 2

58 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 Learn more about visiting, working and living in Hamilton County at InvestHamiltonCounty.com . CARMEL | FISHERS | NOBLESVILLE | WESTFIELD | NORTHERN TOWNS JUST NORTH OF INDY opportunity awaits development organizations, including the Chambers of Commerce and Tourism Bureaus. The Hamilton County Tourism Board is one of those groups. Sachs acknowledges, “They are great partners. There is so much tourism and business travel getting filtered from our airport into Hamilton County and by working together with them we are trying to make sure everyone is benefiting from the direction we are going.” Perhaps the most significant project moving forward is the renovation and lengthening of the runway. Work on making this happen began a decade ago and has an ultimate potential length of 7700 feet– but the current plan, adopted by the FAA, is to lengthen the runway to 7000 feet. This is an $11 million project and they are down to the last $6 million of it. When funding comes in this year, they are hoping to do all the paving. The window of opportunity, in terms of weather for a job like this in Indiana, is short – from May to October – and that will also mean