Air Andrew donates $200,000 to Airport Expansion

August 5, 2024, 8:16 am
by Ashley Bochek

Air Andrew donated $200,000 to the Moosomin Airport Expansion Project last week. Air Andrew offi cials fl ew in from Virden, marking the fi rst time a jet has landed at the Moosomin Airport. From left, Tyler Thorn of the CBA, Tyson Andrew, Hayden Andrew, Brock Andrew, CBA member Kristjan Hebert, CBA member Dan McCarthy, Jeff St. Onge of the Airport Committee, Scott Andrew, RM of Moosomin Reeve Dave Moffatt, and Sean Morgan of Air Andrew.

A major donation has been made to the Moosomin Airport Expansion. Air Andrew donated $200,000 to the project last week.

Scott Andrew says they’re excited for the future ahead for the Moosomin Airport and for this area. “Moosomin has been a community that the Andrew family has been involved with since 1995,” Andrew said.

“Facilities like this for smaller communities require infrastructure. We were able to do a lot of things out of Virden whether it was the insurance brokerage business or our telecommunications company, and one of the key components there is the airport and facility, so I look at this for Moosomin as required infrastructure. I am pretty sure that the next generation of entrepreneurs will utilize the facility and be able to bring some of that success to rural Saskatchewan and Manitoba.”

Andrew says the airport holds many benefits for the Moosomin area.

"There are two bebefits that I have tuned in on the business side, one is agribusiness. The kind of airplanes that we are flying now to support agribusiness you really want a paved municipal type airstrip to operate out of so that gives some support to agribusiness which is only getting bigger. The other one is access for small businesses like getting your customers
here or getting to your customers. For any of the innovators that are around who are building businesses in your community they’re the ones that are going to use this.”