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... CONTENTS 1 SUMMARY 3 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background, 3 Framework, Definitions, and Funding Sources, 4 Scope of This Study, 7 Study Methodology, 7 10 CHAPTER TWO SURVEY RESULTS What Is the Governance Form of Your Airport? , 10 Types of Industrial Development, 10 16 CHAPTER THREE DISCUSSION OF SURVEY RESULTS AND FLORIDA CASE EXAMPLE Introduction, 16 Rates and Charges, 17 Industrial Aviation in Florida, 17 Industrial Aviation at 10 Florida Airports, 19 Development Funding in Florida and Other States, 22 Summary, 31 32 CHAPTER FOUR FINDINGS Lessons Learned, 32 Evaluating Alternative Funding Methods and Project Success, 33 34 CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSIONS Road Map to Successful Aviation Industrial Development, 34 Further Research, 34 36 ACRONYMS 38 GLOSSARY 39 REFERENCES 40 APPENDIX A PARTICIPATING AIRPORTS APPENDIX B SURVEY RESULTS (available at www.trb.org by searching for "ACRP Synthesis 97")
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... SUMMARY FUNDING INDUSTRIAL AVIATION The focus of this report is how airports fund the infrastructure to support industrial aviation development. For this report, industrial aviation development includes but is not limited to the following: • Aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO)
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... 2 – Long-term marketing and communication plans for the duration of the project – Marketing, marketing, and marketing! This includes outreach to current airport users, potential tenants, and constituents in the local community – Flexibility and patience – Detailed recordkeeping.
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... 3 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND From the beginning of the Airport Cooperative Research Program, innovative methods for funding airport development have been a primary interest. In fact, airport development funding methods were defined and analyzed in the first ACRP synthesis report, ACRP Synthesis 1: Innovative Finance and Alternative Sources of Revenue for Airports (Nichol 2007)
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... 4 to local economies and very important to the National Airspace System (NAS) , but funding the infrastructure to support industrial aviation development at airports is complicated.
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... 5 Agricultural Lease: The agriculture sector relies heavily on leases for land and equipment to meet the needs of farmers. With absentee ownership of farmland growing in the United States, farmers and ranchers lease many of the acres they farm and graze today.
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... 6 gram, the farmers market promotion program, and an organic cost-share program (http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/ usdahome? navid=GRANTS_LOANS)
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... 7 such as county, municipal, and township governments. They are formed to perform a single function or a set of related functions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)
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... 8 completed it. Of the 64 airports invited to participate, 53 responded, for a completion rate of 83%.
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... 9 To aid in this process, MAP grants may be used for projects not generally funded by the AIP [Airport Improvement Program] , such as building or rehabilitating surface parking lots, fuel farms, hangars, utility systems, access roads, and cargo buildings.

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