Think this is just a Community Center . It is way more than that. We want to create wifi enabled zones so that families can get what they need. Way to traffic coming from he right side. Our off time previous traffic kind of to my own united 227, after you get over the bridge, give way to traffic coming from your right side. Right. Yes. You clearly interrogate why most people think about airports. They think about the modern jet carrier, a united 227 you are turning for the ynow, right . Yes. You cleared to the gate. Ok. When most people think about airports, they think about the modern jet carrier Passenger Terminal serving our major cities. But the fact is the airlines serve only about 800 of the total number of 12,000 airports in this country. It is general aviation, accounting for three out of every four airport operations which enables americas middle sized cities and towns to compete in modern commerce where cities used to build airports. It now seems that airports build cities, Economic Development and growth are clearly linked to the presence of a thriving dynamic community. Because federal state and local governments recognize the far reaching Economic Impact of general aviation. Our National System of airports is being dramatically revitalized. Today many Civic Leaders realize that airports mean business. The face of america is changing. Its a continuing process of new population patterns, new Land Development and new applications of technological growth, industry, business, and people go where the opportunities are. They always have and always will. An example of this is what is happening in colorado a few miles southeast of denver. There has grown up a remarkable Technological Center of the future which is rapidly becoming the western headquarters for many blue chip enterprises. George m. Wallace has been instrumental in this development. Denver Technological Center comprises 870 acres and is being developed to become a city within a city. It will be a completely planned and integrated business, residential, commercial, Industrial Complex within what we know as the front range of colorado stretching from fort collins on the north to roughly Colorado Springs on the south george m. Wallace believes there are two factors which have made this new community successful. Communication and transportation, particularly air transportation. What you see here is one of three Communication Centers in this facility to handle our business activities. We have Mining Operations in utah, arizona and new mexico operating properties. We have our Real Estate Construction development here in denver. We have aircraft flying between here and moab, utah so that we base aircraft at apo County Airport. The name of the arapaho County Airport comes up often in connection with the denver Technological Center. Of course, there have been many factors which attract industry and people to the community. But the Civic Leaders are certain that it could not have been done without the airport. We cannot have our key people traveling from point a to point b and taking two days to do what we can do with our own aircraft in one day. The type of people that we attract to denver Technological Center are people that do a great deal of traveling. Its very important to them that they have the same flexibility and speed that we have with our own aircraft. And the proximity of arapahoe County Airport just naturally ties the whole thing together. The denver Technological Center is typical of hundreds of enterprises specifically spawned by aviation. In fact, a recent survey of the 500 top american firms revealed that very few of these would locate in a Community Without an airport. It is becoming ever increasingly more important that business have improved communication and transportation. We think of things in terms of time, not in terms of distance. If we have a sudden need to schedule an aircraft to go to moab this morning. By the time i punch the button and our pilot who normally stands by at arapahoe County Airport,by the time he rolls out the aircraft and has checked it out, were already there and packed. Geographical area. In ohio, for example, the State Government in the mid 1960s linked the states need for industry with Industries Need for business aircraft and build all weather airports of, sufficient size. Today there is a County Airport with a hard service runway government in the 1960s linked the states need for industry t with industrys need for business aircraft and built alle weather airports of sufficient size and today there is an airport with a hard surface runway of 3500 feet or more in 84 of the states 88 counties. This means we are on the air map and companies can come in and we do have a philosophy in ohio that we think the airport today is the front door to your community and anybody who will come in and build a y plant and make a decision to help the Economic Growth in this area will fly in and studies show us that out of the 2500 major g companies in this country that are going to develop new plants, 370 of these own and ou operate aircraft. We think we oo have to come up with a good system. What we are advising people to do is to build the kind of facility that will handle the corporate type airplanes we have today. The business airplane is a common sight around the country and has become a tool of modern business as surely as the a computer. They vary from the small single engine planes to sophisticated multiengine jets. This is a north american saver liner with a Seating Capacity of seven passengers and two crew and the top an cruising speed of 560 miles per hour. We can fly up to altitudes of 45,000 feet. It is used to transport ei executives and other Company Personnel to various plants and mills, stores, whatever. As the importance, increases, the need for making more increases. We have some 12 passenger airplanes and we have one 10 passenger in 17 passenger airplane and with an aircraft we are able to do several days job in one day. Granted, airplanes are useful to a business, but just how important is an airport to the community as a whole . Ow how well does the investment in the airport payoff . This is delaware, ohio. It is traditionally a supply in college town until the development ngof the County Airport and its surrounding Industrial Park. Now, there are five sizable employers adding to the economy. During its first year of operation, this single industrial plant contributed n 6. 5 million to the local economy. Good morning. The 457 employees earn 4. 6 million in wages and salaries and purchases from area suppliers came to 670,000 and service rtexpenditures reached nearly 1 million. This one plant made a quarter Million Dollars in local and state taxes. In ohio alone, studies show that Airport Development has attracted or expanded 1500 manufacturing firms providing 60,000 new jobs and 250 million in income. These companies have made a newh Capital Investment of over 1 billion. But through bond issues it was 6. 2 million. The Major Companies are decentralized and moving out into the communitys such as yours because we find a better quality of life out in the po communities of your size. You have good high schools and a beautiful hospital here and you have every asset that a company would want. Now, we need to beat build this new facility. R show them how do you land in airport in your community . Perhaps you can do it on a state level as in ohio or a Community Effort as it was donen in rogers in northwest arkansas. Except for a poultry racing and marginal farm tiindustry, the economy of northwest arkansas was stagnant until the middle 1950s. At that time, a group of ve intestines interested citizens decided that to make g opportunities for young people to remain, it would be necessary to attract industry and they had a stable labor supply, and expense of land to develop, good water and Power Resources and a desirable environment. At the time, a leading Sporting Goods company was looking for a new home. We came to rogers in 1957 although the plant wasnt oo completed until the middle of 1958 and when we first look for a site, one of the first things we looked for is whether there n was an airport facility and , when i look at a greenfield which was Rogers Airport at the time, it didnt offer everything i wanted, but i had complete assurance of the people here that they also recognize the need hafor aviati as an adjunct part of development and if they did anything within their part to construct a fine airport for the city. With that in mind we finally or decided to move to rogers. Not only have we contributed materially to the Economic Growth of northwest arkansas, nt but the fact that we have been happy and successful here has been a major factor of bringing other industry here. So it is only natural when i other interest he is industries that they come here and ask about experiences and this is been true in our case and hardly a week goes by with some group of industrialist doesnt come to my office and ask me about northwest arkansas and among other things what about the use of airplanes or the largest airport and what are the plans for the future of it. Generally, aviation has been a major factor in contributing materially to the Economic Growth here. Rogers got its airport out rt of the dedication of a handful of individuals who believed that the future of their community was linked to aviation. They demonstrated this beginning in 1947 when the airport became the focal point of a gigantic baby chicken air left for prompt distribution to chicks to broiler distributions in the area and this in turn led to some of the Worlds Largest chick hatcheries and made rogers one of the world major poultry areas. Today, rogers has 26 manufacturing plants employing 3725 people out of a total population of 10,700. As new plants open, new families moved to rogers and this is at the rate of about 500 per year. The big thing in industry today is decentralization. Up until a relatively short time ago, industry felt it had to be concentrated in large m Industrial Complexes mainly because of transportation factors but general aviation has changed all of this. Not only can industry now put Branch Plants and what were on at one time considered remote areas, but the areas that were remote are now benefiting from the location s of these Branch Plants. So everybody does benefit from the decentralization of industry. Believing that airports are bridges to the present and gateways to the future, the federal government helps communities to finance Al Construction and expansion project projects. President nixons act of 1970 provides a total of 2. 8 billion in federal and local money over a yefiveyear period to build and improve airports across the country. This is half 1 billion more than the total generated during the entire 23 year lifespan of the formal former federal aid. Administered by the department of transportation federal administration of aviation the program is the Airport Development aid program serving a system of airplanes and airports large and small and inf order to be eligible, a community has to be identified in the National Airport system plan and the development desired must nwbe recommended b faa. Federal funding is available for projects on the airfield and erland acquisition, construction of runways, taxiways and the installation of lighting and wnavigational aids. O this dupage County Airport in illinois is an example of this federal and local partnership at work and as early as 1931, dupage was the home airport of business ve aircraft for oil companies, pipelines, and construction companies. In the 50s, with federal assistance, the airport was expanded, and in a few years, the number of aircraft aieprose from 440 and this is a logical facility to relieve chicagos ha busy ohare airport. In order to keep pace, the airport is now planning for additional expansion. By 1990, it is estimated that dupage will handle more than half 1 million plane movements per year which is twice the present rate. Often, of course, it doesnt take a new airport. Rather the Community Development and the enhanced improved existing airport. The Municipal Airport here serving bartel and winterhaven florida was formally an air force facility. In 1961 it was declared surplus by the military and conveyed back to the city. And this was for utilization is an airport and industrial parts with the guaranteed that the city would see it maintained as an airport facility and the buildings left by the military are a tremendous advantage and have unlimited potential. They are modern buildings and y can be easily converted and good roads were established by the military. In many cases wonderful utilities were also left by the military. In the early port part of rt 1971, we developed an Airport Improvement Program utilizing the faa adept program where thec federal government provides 50 of funding for airport improvements. The airport consists of 1700 acres and approximately 600 hlr acres are in direct aviation e utilization and the remainder of the areas 400 acres of highly developed industrial tracks and the remainder is for future development. We have roughly 40 industries located in the airport at the present time of varied types and last year our survey indicated that there were 17 million worth of payroll on , this airport. Even though the advantage of airports is often acknowledged, one of the leading obstacles has been objection about the airports and airplanes impact on the environment. E this former astronaut and now environmentalist has spoken up on the subject. I decided to look for ak another area of interest and the environment seem to be one where we hadnt paid much attention and there was a lot of rhetoric and talk but i in would look at the land as landr use. What are we taking away from the land in the sense of do we take prime grazing land or prime land used for farming andi that would be a nono with todays logic. We look at it for drainage and this would be a Civil Engineers approach. With that kind of logic, you can lay out an area where the airport itself doesnt interfere with the environment of the people and protect that land rather than helet it depreciate in value and typically we did find all of our airports have been encroached upon by the advances of population and civilization by the service. Teams and those who support the airport like the flight crews and Ground Support crews and the catering cruise and they start taking up the real estate and they dont like to commute too far so they end up in apartments and hotels and they complain about the f noise of the airport and its a new community and the airport must go. D a prime feature of this program is a concern for the environment. We just received the final subdivision plat of the last 100 acres of the one Industrial Park and i thought you would be interested to see one of the more different ideas they have out there where they have singlefamily 1 acre lots along the Northern Boundary of the park. Planning has to include a detailed professional study of the environmental factors and steps must be included to protect the environment and separate aircraft noise from residential areas. It is worth noting zothat airports can live compatibly with the environment and in themselves be places of beauty were Community Planning takes this into account. At scottsdale, arizona is one of the nations Fastest Growing communities and is interested in this standpoint and the late noted architect once said aviation and architecture are devoted to the same principle, placing something meaningful between earth and sky. It is possible for the same idea to extend to the industrial neighbors of an da airport. Scottsdale been a simple airport, i can recall when it was nothing more than a field and when the city council and mayor became instrumental in developing the airport, you can see for yourself what it has brought in, industry around the entire perimeter of the airport and everyone will agree it is probably one of the most beautifully designed airports within the state of arizona or for that matter within the country and it has brought industry to scottsdale and industry always settles where there is a good airport. We are in marine land and you can probably hear the trains in the background and ha porpoises are singing and the whales are diving and the po dolphins are making all sorts of fancy patterns. This is quite a wellknown place where they do a elot of really valuable studies on ocean life and that sort of thing. If you wonder why we can land here, this is an approved heliport which shows you dont have to have an eyesore but it can be part of the landscape. This is a lovely grass field with no dust and has a wire fence around it to protect it from any visitors who may want to come and see the helicopter so that it is perfectly safe and approved by the faa and by the state. It makes a lovely place to come and yohave lunch. Is i have been flying since 1939 ac but have been in helicopters just since 1962. These have been pilgrim days, i guess you would say where the e helicopter is still way behind the airplane in development. But it has such a terrific potential, that it is really fascinating. The machine itself is harder to fly than airplanes. What you get out of is that it is easy to get out of small confined areas or rooftops or many places that you cant possibly go with an airplane and of course it does open up a whole new world. Would you like to fly away . Heliport mean business as well and they are a fast and convenient air Transportation System from city center to connecting Airline Flights or from city center to outlying areas. The development of new quiet short takeoff and landing aircraft also ngspeeds doorto door travel times and eases congestion at larger and crowded airports. These operations require a minimum amount of land for takeoffs and landings and offer the potential of locations closer to the transportation centers. This airstrip at disney world in Central Florida is a case ina point. Visitors at this major recreational facility can fly into tampa or Miami Orlando and then fly in these smaller us airports airplanes to disney world and it could apply to other areas that need ready access. Here again is a location of this airport that means business. The modern airport is to s todays communities what the in railroad was to towns and cities a century ago and the city survives and prospers according to its transportation ability. Today, that includes ee aviation. It is already happening in from s of communities california to florida. Dozens of areas in between and even in the remote spots of the nation. What these communities are finding is an airport serving general aviation really does mean business. And if your Community Wants to build an airport and enjoy the benefits, go to your state Aviation Commission or department or contact the federal Aviation Administration for information and technical and financial assistance. Airports mean business