South Carolina Airport Takes Over FBO Operations

At the beginning of the year, Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport/Roger Milliken Field assumed operation of the lone FBO at the South Carolina airport. The facility had been operated by Stevens Aviation since the airport opened in 1962. The airport commission decided in September 2015 that it would not renew Stevens’s lease when it expired at the end of last year or request proposals for the management of the FBO.

Once it learned that the lease would not be renewed, Stevens relocated its former turboprop MRO facility at GSP to its main aircraft maintenance location 10 miles away at Donaldson Field Airport, which previously specialized only in business jets. Early last year, at the commission’s request, Stevens handed over the management of tenant hangars at the airport.

Renamed Cerulean Aviation, the airport-managed, Ascent-branded FBO offers a 10,000-sq-ft terminal and 50,000 sq ft of heated hangars that can accommodate aircraft up to a Gulfstream G650. The facility is open 24/7 and offers a passenger lobby, conference rooms, pilots’ lounge with flight-planning center, snooze room, concierge and valet service, complimentary snacks and beverages, crew cars, rampside vehicle access, international trash disposal and on-site car rental as well as dishwashing and linen-laundering service.