North Dakota FBO Sees Major Expansion

Minot Aero Center (known until recently as Pietsch Aircraft), the lone service provider at North Dakota’s Minot International Airport, has completed a $3 million expansion project, which saw the addition of a new 40,000-sq-ft floor-heated hangar complex sized to accommodate aircraft up to a G650. It also includes a spacious lounge with ramp views and seven “day rooms” with kitchenettes and showers for customer use. The project also added four attached two-stall garages. According to the family-owned company, customers can now pull in the garage, walk through a heated lobby and exit out to the aircraft in the temperature-controlled hangar, important in an area that remains below freezing for half the year. The new building and previous 3,600-sq-ft terminal are connected by a large passageway. The addition more than quadrupled the passenger area at the facility, which has been in operation since 1952.