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Indianapolis FBO To Open New Hangar Complex
By: Curt Epstein
Caption: First Wing Jet Center, the lone FBO at Indianapolis Executive Airport, is anticipating the completion of a $3.6 million hangar complex.
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First Wing Jet Center, the lone FBO at Indianapolis Executive Airport (KTYQ), has started construction of a $3.6 million "executive hangar" complex. Scheduled to open by the end of the year, the new complex will add a dozen 3,900-sq-ft heated, single-tenant hangars with 18-foot-high doors that can shelter light jets and turboprops. Each will come supplied with gas, electricity, and bathrooms, and can be customized by tenants with options such as office space and storage lofts.

Serving the state’s busiest non-commercial airport, the FBO is at full capacity with more than 100 based aircraft ranging from a Gulfstream G550 to Cessna 172. First Wing currently has 50,000 sq ft of community storage that can accommodate large-cabin business jets.

"The hangars we are building are unique in this part of the state," said company v-p and general manager Sean White, explaining that most of the area's currently available private hangars are smaller T-hangars or larger shared hangars. The new hangars, he said, will provide an "option for customers who own large or multiple airplanes that previously wasn't available in central Indiana.”

In addition to a second FBO at Frankfort/Clinton County Regional Airport (FKR), the company operates an FAA Part 145 repair center, a flight school, and an aircraft rental operation.