Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport (GPT) marked a major milestone last month when the new Million Air FBO (the company’s 29th location) opened its doors to customers for the first time. The $12 million facility is the first new FBO to be built at the airport after it was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Since then, Atlantic Aviation has handled private aviation at the airport out of trailers as the hurricane tore the roof off the landmark WWII hangar formerly occupied by the facility.
Million Air’s FBO is the first to be built according to the airport’s master plan, which was drawn up in the mid 1980s. That plan saw the relocation of the airport’s general aviation sector from GPT’s east ramp area, where it was sandwiched between two U.S. military facilities, to a newly developed southern area that has seen nearly $80 million in public investment. Part of the plan called for land to be set aside to accommodate two FBOs, and it was this provision that caused Atlantic to balk at rebuilding its facility in the face of uncertain private aviation business in the Katrina-devastated area.
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