MORE JOBS AT THE CRESTVIEW BOB SIKES AIRPARK

MORE JOBS. MORE JOBS. MORE JOBS. The Crestview Bob Sikes Industrial Airpark continues to grow and as you read below, Dr. HSU, a very successfully Defense Contractor, is not going to stop here. As you read on, you will see he has bigger plans for the Air Park, and rightfully so, since all of the Aerospace Industry from around the country and world see this Air Park as a place to be.

New hangar open at Crestview Technology Air Park
Dusty Ricketts
2011-02-24 16:42:30
CRESTVIEW — Two years ago, the 20-acre parcel at the north end of the Bob Sikes Airport’s runway was a wooded area. Last year, it was a dirt pit. Today, it is a new state-of-the-art aircraft hangar, the first one to open at Crestview Technology Air Park. The Air Park is a joint venture between local businessmen Paul Hsu and Bob Keller. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the hangar is scheduled for March 4. “To me this is really a symbol of the can-do spirit, can-do attitude of the people of Okaloosa County,” said Hsu, chairman of Hsu Enterprise Group. “This is living proof of how the local government can work with the private industry and create jobs.” Keller’s Sunshine Aero Flight Test will be the first tenant at the new industrial park. It has leased the entire 33,000-square-foot hangar. Sunshine Aero was the fixed-base operator at Bob Sikes Airport for about 30 years until it lost a bid for the job to Emerald Coast Aviation in August 2008. Since then, Keller has rented space from Emerald Coast Aviation to stay at Bob Sikes. Keller said the limited space stifled growth, but that’s no longer a concern. “It’s already had a big effect because we looked pretty small where we were and our airplanes were kind of sitting on a ramp because we didn’t have enough space,” Keller said. “Now we look like a real flight test organization, which is really nice, and we are expanding rapidly. We’re probably going to end up here in just a very short time having to build another hanger for the flight test division.” Hsu said he is talking with another company that is considering coming to the Crestview Technology Air Park. That would require the construction of a second hangar. Keller and Hsu’s long-term goal is to build four hangars, with one of them large enough to house a C-17 Globemaster, one of the military’s largest transport aircraft. “This is not only good for Crestview, but good for Florida and good for America,” Hsu said. “We are creating and maintaining jobs.”