Aviation View - Oct 2023

24 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 The airport has on-base flight schools, and nearby Rocky Mountain College has a flight program that also operates at the airport. Roach adds there’s a related business park with a number of government entities focused on wildland firefighting, something critically important in a state as mountainous and heavily forested as Montana. He continues that in recent weeks, firefighters have taken to the skies from Billings Logan to combat the enormous wildfires in neighboring Canada. “We become a tanker base and a wildland firefighting regional base of operations when the need arises in the area,” says Roach. Billings Logan is the busiest air freight operation in the state. Both Fed-Ex and UPS operate there daily. They deliver air freight that’s then transferred to smaller aircraft, serving a multi-state region with smaller aircraft air-freight operations out of Billings. Capital improvements taking flight