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FBO Profile: Aurora Aviation

For half a century, a fixture at the Pacific Northwest gateway

Aurora Aviation operates an FBO at Oregon's Aurora State Airport that also serves as a Cessna authorized service center. The company offers charters in a Phenom 300.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

January 14, 2017

For nearly half a century, Aurora Aviation has been a fixture at Portland, Ore.-area Aurora State Airport (UAO), which opened at the height of World War II. Formerly a federal facility, the airport was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era public works program. It once stood out in the Oregon countryside but is now part of suburban Portland, as the city has grown out to reach it. In fact, according to Bruce Bennett, Aurora Aviation’s president and chief pilot, some of Portland’s most desirable real estate can now be found nearby. UAO, which got a new control tower in October 2015, is home to 100 turbine-powered aircraft. Its 5,000-foot runway is slated for a 1,000-foot extension.

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