11/02/2023
The PA Aviation Economic Impact Study was published back in March, and I forgot to post it for all of our airport supporters! This was a study done last year to assess the impact that aviation has on our state as a whole, as well as each individual public access airport within the State. We worked hard to accurately represent the amount of economic impact that our airport has on our community. This includes businesses that use our airport to augment or make possible their businesses, leading to more employees, therefore more impact; individuals that fly into Towanda and then visit restaurants, hotels, shopping, outdoor activities, etc. Our fuel sales have been way up in the last couple of years, and our hangars are full! We have quite an active airport down here and our patrons are very happy to visit our great county and our corner of our beautiful State! With the work that we did to ascertain the impact of our airport on the community the Study estimated a figure of $5.1 million dollars that essentially flows through the airport into our county! This is money that does not go to governmental budgets or funds, but into individual businesses and our local economy. We work hard down here to represent our community well and point people to our amazing businesses to visit! We have some great restaurants, places to stay, outdoor activities, vendor malls for shopping, and very talented artisans including painters, woodworkers, etc. that we encourage visitors to check out! And if you are visiting, please ask us about our courtesy car services here at the airport to help you get into town! Without further ado, here is the webpage for the economic impact study: https://www.penndot.pa.gov/Doing-Business/Aviation/Planning%20and%20Zoning/Pages/2022-Economic-Impact-of-Aviation.aspx
I would encourage all to read the information offered here, there is alot, but it is very interesting.
Here is our airport's page with a PDF detailing our specific economic impact:
https://www.penndot.pa.gov/TravelInPA/airports-pa/Pages/Bradford-County-Airport.aspx
If anyone has any questions please call 570-265-4900.
Airport Aerial Imagery (Google Maps)Part 77 Surface Overlay (PDF)Bradford County Airport Economic Impact: $5.1 million (PDF)