Stellar Aviation Group has won an RFP tender to operate the second FBO at Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) in Nevada. The company had a soft opening late last month at the former Million Air facility, which had remained largely unused for the past several years, as it prepares for construction on its permanent new location.
Stellar received a 50-year lease from the Reno Tahoe Airport Authority to develop 40 acres on the northeast corner of the field, near the Dassault maintenance center. It expects to break ground by the end of the year on the first phase of the more than $20 million project, which will include a 5,000-sq-ft terminal and a 30,000-sq-ft hangar. The new facility is expected to be operational in 18 to 24 months.
Stellar also operates facilities at Palm Beach County Park Airport in Florida and at Springfield Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Illinois, along with managing the Dassault FBO at Delaware’s New Castle County Airport.
“This new location is another strategic cornerstone for our growing FBO network as we look to expand beyond the East Coast and Midwest by garnering an important foothold in the West,” said company president Jonathan Miller.
- Business Aviation