over here? Do we want commercials or do we want corporate hangars over here? So we just found the best general idea of where we wanted those things,” Cuevas notes. Cuevas elaborates that Garver gave the airport three different options to pick and choose from when financing the direction of the airport layout plan. “We came up with the best use of the land available to get the most bang for the buck.” “It is not only just a corporate hanger or just box hangars. It is also T hangars, which are small aircraft hangars because not everybody needs a 100 x 100 hangar. They can’t afford it and they don’t want to build it, knowing that a lot of the master plan, as far as getting our hangars built, relies on private investment: we lease the land and they build the hangar.” ADDITIONAL UPGRADES LANDING AT THE AIRPORT Cuevas points to other pieces of the master plan that the airport will be focusing on; infrastructure upgrades. “Outside of the hangar development, the FAA compliance update that we have to make is that we have to decouple our runways. The FAA does not like them coming to the same angle anymore.” “What we will do is make a portion of the shorter runway inactive and then make aircraft go around to get to the beginning of the new boundary. This way we don’t have aircraft getting on the wrong runway and thinking they have 6000 feet to take off when they only have 4,2000 feet to take off.” Cuevas also highlights how the airport will change the taxiway that is directly linked to the runway to make sure that there is a turn so people don’t accidentally get on the runway thinking it is a taxiway. “We are going to do everything right so we don’t have to go back and redo all of this in 10 years,” Cuevas says. 63 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 05, ISSUE 02 MINERAL WELLS REGIONAL AIRPORT
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