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Atlantic Completes Major Oregon FBO Upgrade
By: Curt Epstein
Caption: The new facility at Portland International Airport was constructed as a partnership between the service provider and the airport.
Word Count: 233
Atlantic Aviation has completed its new FBO at Oregon’s Portland International Airport, where it is the lone service provider. The chain paid approximately $25 million of the cost of the $30 million facility, while the airport contributed the new ramp space.

The new complex includes a more than 12,000-sq-ft terminal with Northwest styling, incorporating stone and reclaimed wood, that is nearly twice as large as the former facility. It features U.S. Customs, a larger lounge with expanded seating areas and two fireplaces, a cafe area that can be used as an observation point for viewing ramp activity, pilots' lounge with snooze rooms, crew showers, private work spaces, Wi-Fi throughout the terminal and ramp, two conference rooms (one seating 14 and the other eight) and parking spaces for 235 cars. The FBO is also a DCA Gateway under the TSA's DASSP access program.

According to general manager Robert Pinedo, the former facility did not have enough employee space, a flaw that was remedied in the new build, which offers separate locker rooms with showers, a staff kitchen and break room, training room and laundry room. The project also included a pair of new 30,000-sq-ft heated hangars capable of sheltering the latest class of ultra-long-range business jets, with an additional 15,500 sq ft of shop and office space.

Pinedo noted the former facility might be occupied by an air-taxi operation.