Once the busiest airport in the world, Detroit’s municipal airport, named after former Mayor Coleman A. Young, is undergoing a multimillion-dollar upgrade to generate more commerce for the city.
“We were the busiest airport in the world from 1929 to 1934 and that’s because of the Ford Trimotor and people coming in and doing business with Ford,” airport director Jason Watt said. The airport recently signed a 30-year leasehold with Michigan-based Avflight, a fixed-base operator that handles airport services such as fuelling, hangars and ground handling. Avflight has more than a couple dozen contracts with airports mainly in North America including those in Winnipeg and Plattsburgh, N.Y. Avflight has been servicing the airport since 2011.
The airport’s central location and relatively small size allow private jets, including professionals and entertainers, to fly in and out of the city more easily.“Our airport is actually designed for the Gulfstream V so that being said we’re not limited to that aircraft that’s just the primary aircraft that services our airport,” Watt said.
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