After years of wrangling, SheltAir Aviation Services has opened its new FBO at Francis S. Gabreski Airport (FOK) in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. Part of the Holland Sheltair Aviation Group, which operates 13 facilities in New York, Florida and Georgia, the company has been at Gabreski since it acquired the FBO from the Long Island Jet Center in 2006. The Eastern-most airport with a control tower on Long Island, the former air force base features one of the longest runways in the state at 9,000 feet and has even played host to Air Force One.
“This facility serves Long Island’s entire east end, and the Hamptons area is the highest per capita [income] area in the entire state of New York, if not the Northeast,” said William McShane, Holland SheltAir’s senior vice president for aviation development and properties. “In terms of demand, there’s been a lack of service and a lack of facilities at this airport. With the 1940s structure that we were operating out of, we couldn’t provide the efficiencies or the services the way our customers deserve them.”
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