FBOs
Jet Aviation Singapore feels effect of economic recovery
The warm breeze drifting across Singapore Seletar Airport brings a welcome respite from the midday heat in this island nation near the earth’s equator.

The warm breeze drifting across Singapore Seletar Airport brings a welcome respite from the midday heat in this island nation near the earth’s equator. At Jet Aviation Singapore, v-p and general manager Geoffrey Hopkins is anticipating a breeze of a different kind–a wind of economic recovery brought on by growing prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

After opening its doors in 1995, the FBO enjoyed an encouraging first couple of years. Singapore is ideally located as a service center for business aviation in the surrounding region, as far north as Hong Kong and south to Australia, and the Singapore government had offered attractive incentives. And while Seletar Airport is VFR only, with a rather short 5,500-foot runway, the weather year-round is such that instrument approach aids are rarely needed.