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=== Other facilities === | === Other facilities === | ||
To the southeast of the threshold | There is a business/private aviation facility which is located within the airport and has its own terminal and facilities separate from the public terminal. It provides services for executive aircraft and passengers, including a passenger lounge, private rooms and showers, business center facilities, ground handling, baggage handling, fuelling, security, customs and flight planning. Designated spaces and hangars are also provided for private aircraft. | ||
Directly accessible from northern [[Whitestone]] is a general aviation facility, which is located to the right of runway 21. It has its own hangar and is operated by an undisclosed company<sup>[''name?'']</sup>. | |||
==== Preserved Midwestern DC-10 ==== | |||
To the southeast of the runway threshold and directly visible from eastbound [[I-205]] is a preserved Douglas DC-10-30. | |||
It is an old Midwestern Airlines DC-10-30 that used to fly to GIA in the early 2000s but the airline ceased operations and this airframe has remained at GIA ever since. It is now preserved by the 0C-10 Club and not accessible to the public. The 0C-10 club holds events for club members and contributors at the site once a year or so. | |||
The reason to why it remained at GIA is that Midwestern Airlines planes were deemed unairworthy by the FAA due to extremely bad maintenance and procedures even after several warnings. The FAA then issued a ban on Midwestern flights on the 16th May 2005 until maintenance checks had been carried out. The maintenance for this particular airframe was never carried out entirely as Midwestern Airlines shortly after declared bankruptcy and ceased operations. The airframe was never sold or shipped to the Mojave Air & Space Port due to the bad maintenance and no pilots wanted to fly it. | |||
== Airlines and Destinations == | == Airlines and Destinations == | ||