Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 3

70 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 board. Board members managed the saved funds well, as you can only hold onto the AIP funding for four years. This required them to bank the money into loan funds for other airports. And during this period, everyone on the airfield paid rent, including the management team. When the funding had been allotted to the safety overrun project, the airport’s board could still build an additional nine-bay T-hangars thanks to outstanding debts due in their favor. This new project was handled by JAVE Construction, who Cox credits as being “very responsive and efficiently completed the work, with only minor supply chain issues due to the pandemic.” With the two latest major projects completed at the airport, infrastructure at the airfield is now in great condition. Management is actually finding an issue with where to spend their budget, but they have indicated that funding will go into maintaining the ramps. As with the industry nationwide, there are keen    Big Sandy Regional Airport conducts its own fixed-based operator (FBO) services. It also boasts a terminal building that houses all the basic amenities and a conference room. Also attached to the terminal is what management considers a ‘community hangar’ for aircraft. Until recently, the airport ran on a tight budget, saving up for the extensive SRA project. Cox admits, “We couldn’t spend any of our funding on anything that would make the airport revenue, such as T-hangars. But this being said, we could spend on safety assets such as fencing, lighting, and asphalt.” Now that the safety overrun project is almost complete, management can spend its airport improvement program (AIP) money for the first time in 15 years. Big Sandy Regional Airport is owned by four counties: Johnson, Floyd, McGuffin, and Martin. Members from these counties form the airport