{"id":17995,"date":"2021-03-16T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17995"},"modified":"2021-03-16T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:52:27","slug":"hettinger-jb-lindquist-regional-airport-awarded-2020-general-aviation-airport-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/hettinger-jb-lindquist-regional-airport-awarded-2020-general-aviation-airport-of-the-year\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Hettinger-JB Lindquist Regional Airport Awarded \u201c2020 General Aviation Airport of the Year\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The JB Lindquist Regional Airport has received the North\nDakota \u201c2020 General Aviation Airport of the Year\u201d award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was announced on March 9th, 2021 at the Fly-ND Conference held online. The award is sponsored by the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission in partnership with the Airport Association of North Dakota. This award is for excellence in community awareness, airport management, special events, and beautification projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Airport Accomplishments for 2020:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The airport showed a strong belief in aviation\nadvocacy and community outreach. The airport hosted a career day where high\nschool shop class students were educated on career opportunities in aviation\nand learned how aircraft systems are different compared to vehicles. The\nairport also worked with Dakota Butte Museum and presented on the history of\nHettinger Municipal Airport, starting around the 1930s. Another event the\nairport does annually, and has for the past 35 years, but was cancelled due to\nthe COVID-19 pandemic is discovery flights for all the first graders in\nHettinger.<\/li><li>The JB Lindquist Regional Airport showed\ncommunity support by being one of the only airports to host a fly-in breakfast\nin 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event raised about $1,500 to help\nsupport the local fire department. The airport attended other fly-ins in the\narea at private airstrips on local farms and ranches.<\/li><li>The airport showed great progress in 2020 by\nconstructing several projects. They poured concrete pads by the GA terminal and\nself-serve fuel tanks, installed digital keypad locks on the majority of the\nhangars for added security, replaced airport windsocks, extended the crosswind\noverrun by 300\u2019, and finished rehabilitation of both partial parallel taxiways\nas well as constructed a full parallel taxiway.<\/li><li>Air Dakota Flite Inc, the Fixed Base Operator\n(FBO) located on the airport, has many accommodations including major aircraft\nairframe and power plant repairs, agriculture application services, pilot\ninstruction, and aircraft sales.<\/li><li>The FBO also created a maintenance schedule to\nsystematically updated aircraft with ADS-B and equipped their pilots with iPads\nto serve as an electronic flight bag replacing paper used previously.<\/li><li>The airport provides accommodations such as jet\nand aviation fuel, hangar space, aircraft tie-downs, courtesy cars, and a\npublic terminal and pilot lounge. In 2020, the airport updated both airport\ncourtesy cars, purchased a new tractor for their mower, and a Bobcat for\nadditional snow removal.<\/li><li>And to top off all the airport\u2019s accomplishments\nin 2020, the airport has decided to rename the airport from Hettinger Municipal\nAirport to JB Lindquist Regional Airport in honor of the long-time aviator and\nairport manager, JB Lindquist.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The JB Lindquist Regional Airport is congratulated for a\ntremendous year of accomplishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JB Lindquist Regional Airport has received the North Dakota \u201c2020 General Aviation Airport of the Year\u201d award. The award was announced on March 9th, 2021 at the Fly-ND Conference held online. The award is sponsored by the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission in partnership with the Airport Association of North Dakota. 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