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FBO Profile: Texas Jet

Is 450,000 square feet of hangar space enough?

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

May 28, 2017

You might say that aviation is in Reed Pigman’s blood. His family once owned a supplemental-carrier airline, and he started Texas Jet, one of several FBOs at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, in 1978 after selling off a flight school in Oklahoma so he could move back to his hometown of Fort Worth. He began with two hangars and today, nearly four decades later, that number has grown to 23, totaling 450,000 sq ft of aircraft storage space for the latest big business jets, all situated on a leasehold of 32 acres.

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