FBOs
Republican Convention provides first test for newly opened Key Air
Three days before the start of this year’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in Saint Paul, one of the Minnesota Twin Cities’ biggest fly-ins of transie

Three days before the start of this year’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in Saint Paul, one of the Minnesota Twin Cities’ biggest fly-ins of transient business aircraft, Key Air opened the doors to its brand-new FBO on 25 acres on the northwest corner of Anoka County Airport.

Located in Blaine, Anoka is 20 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis and was just outside the border of the temporary Reagan National-style security gateway system imposed on close-in airports during the RNC, held from September 1 to 4. (Under the Reagan National plan, aircraft crew and occupants must be pre-vetted, the aircraft must depart from, and is subject to search, at a designated “gateway” airport, and a TSA-approved armed guard must be aboard the aircraft.)

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