Maverick Jet Center, one of two FBOs at South Dakota’s Joe Foss Field Airport, has completed a $3.3 million expansion project at the Sioux Falls gateway, including a new 30,000-sq-ft hangar, bringing the facility up to 47,000 sq ft of aircraft storage space. The six-month project also added another 50,000 gallons of jet-A storage to the fuel farm at the Shell-branded location, more than doubling its capacity.
Maverick, which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, also offers a 5,000-sq-ft terminal with a pilots' lounge, conference room, customer lounge and flight-planning room. The additional space and fuel storage has allowed the company to partner with Minnesota-based aircraft charter, management and maintenance provider Charter First, which will now base three of its aircraft at the Maverick facility, rather than have to reposition them there as has in the past. In addition, the IS-BAO-audited company will provide King Air and Cessna Citation maintenance.