AOPA Pilot Magazine - November 2014 - 86

WILLISTON

NORTH
DAKOTA
FARGO

SIX YEARS AGO, western North Dakota would have been dark on any night

time satellite photo. Today, more than 150 oil companies in the region
produce more oil than Alaska and the lights from the gas flares are brighter
than most U.S. cities. The infrastructure at Sloulin Field can't bare the weight
of the influx of so much traffic-and heavy aircraft.

says. "There's the Missouri River and
Yellowstone River and Lake Sakakawea.
You can imagine those flights in the fall
when the leaves are out.
"We have lots of potential student
pilots, too," he says. "We're always looking
for additional flight instructors. Right now
we have a list of about 40 students signed
up. If we had more instructors, there would
be more."
If you look at a sectional chart, it
appears the airport is slightly outside of
town. In truth, the city has swallowed the
airport whole.
"One of the problems is that we have
power lines at the end of Runway 29.
They're hard to see. And there's an oil well
right there, too. If you depart Runway 11,
we have one of the busiest intersections
in the whole state right at the end of the
runway. It's in the RPZ [runway protection zone]. So, the population explosion
has surrounded the airport. It's now a landlocked airport. We have nowhere to grow."
HOW TO GROW

On the other side of the airport-a long
four-minute walk from the Williston Jet
Center, through a commercial terminal
where the word cozy would apply only if
there were fewer people, outside again, and
then into an office space-I meet Steven
Kjergaard, the airport manager. Three
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years ago he was working airport operations in Teterboro, New Jersey. Then he
saw a posting for a job opening in western
North Dakota. "It's been an interesting
three and a half years," he jokes.
"When I got here," he says, "We were
served by three Great Lakes Aviation
flights a day. That was three Embraer 120s.
We were transitioning to becoming a Great
Lakes maintenance base. We were just
finishing the 30,000-square-foot hangar,
partially for them, partially for the FBO.
Still sleepy little Williston.
"No one expected us to grow this fast or
this heavy. When I got here we were about
15,500 enplanements. That's about it. Last
year we did 96,000 enplanements. [It]
more than tripled in three years. That does
not include GA and does not include charter flights. Right now we do about 10,000 to
15,000 crew change enplanements a year.
That doesn't include all the corporate jets."



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