“We were going to make more profits than we had in the previous 50 years of our existence. “In 2004, the budget for the next year was slated to be the best budget we ever had,” Parish notes. Over the following several years, however, Parish says that the Airport hit its stride, with ten new hangars constructed. We lost our taxing authority in the early ‘90s and went through a period of – what do you call it – penny-pinching.” The Authority, when it was first conceived, had taxing authority and the Airport was flourishing. So we’re governed by the elected, five-person, Charlotte County Airport Authority Board. The county took over and then, quickly after that, gave it to an airport authority. We transitioned from a military training facility to a general aviation airport in 1945, but the Airport sat unmanaged for the majority of the first 30 years of its life.
We opened in 1943, and just celebrated our 75 th anniversary last year. “Like most airports in Florida,” begins James Parish, Punta Gorda Airport’s CEO, “we’re a former military training base from World War II. Well, that is exactly what happened at the Punta Gorda Airport in Charlotte County, Florida. What if a disaster was the impetus for growth? Imagine having a clean slate from which to create a better organization.
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Punta Gorda Airport Reborn and high flyingīusiness View Magazine interviews James Parish CEO of Punta Gorda Airport, as part of our series on regional American airports.
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