(From @FalconFieldAZ Twitter.)
By Mark Moran | East Valley Tribune
Developers are halfway into a $150-million, 750,000-square-foot expansion at Falcon Field in northeast Mesa, further filling in what precious little open space remains at the city-owned general aviation site.
Mesa Hangars LLC Manager Randy Hansen, who has lived in northeast Mesa for 35 years, is the primary investor in the development. He owns and hangars his own plane at Falcon and is especially taken with one of the new tenants … one he never imagined seeing at the one-time WWII pilot training installation.
“It’s a start-up rocket venture that’s building components for a rocket company in Tucson,” Hansen chuckled. “We’re buildin’ rockets over here! Who would have ever thought at Falcon Field that we are building rockets to launch satellites?”
