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BOLTON, Miss. (AP) — A high-performance kit plane manufacturer has opened a facility at the John Bell Williams Airport.
The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://on.thec-l.com/1CwcK5C ) that the facility will be the only one in the nation to manufacture the Questair Venture, a small, high-performance kit plane.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Friday at the airport. The event drew Questair Ventures from all over the country.
The Venture is a low-wing, all-metal monoplane licensed under the Federal Aviation Administration's amateur-built category.
The company will support the more than 100 known Venture kit and plane owners with components, parts and technical support, according to the newspaper.
Dan Myers, one of the facility's owners, says the Hinds Community College and its students will be involved in building the kit planes.
"This is a long time coming for John Bell," said Hinds County Economic Development Director Blake Wallace. "The smaller type industries like this are the ones we have targeted for this airport, so we're happy to have this here."
Clinton Mayor Phil Fisher said the facility will bring in a "fascinating industry."
"It brings in a little different spin," he said. "They're small and fast and aerodynamic and sleek. They're the sports cars of the sky, and that's what make them neat to see as they fly by and at the speeds they go."
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