American Aviation plans three new hangars at Brooksville airport
Three 11,979-square-foot hangars will rise on six acres at Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport, pushing American Aviation past a quarter-million square feet.
Hernando County’s airport growth story took another step forward when commissioners approved leases for six acres at Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport, clearing the way for American Aviation to build three new hangars on the field. The project, approved April 8, 2025, marks another sign that BKV is becoming more than a runway complex: it is turning into a larger business campus with real pressure on land use, access roads and the county’s aviation workforce pipeline.
American Aviation, which has operated at BKV for more than 30 years and has served as the airport’s sole fixed-base operator for many years, plans to build one 11,979-square-foot hangar each year over a three-year span starting in 2025. The company’s role goes well beyond fueling and parking aircraft. It also handles maintenance, flight planning, ground transportation, pilot training, FAA Part 145 repair work and Part 141 flight training, making the expansion relevant not just to pilots but to mechanics, instructors and the broader local aviation economy.
The scale of the airport’s available land helps explain why the hangar buildout matters. Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport describes its technology center as a 2,400-acre master-planned campus with more than 1,000 acres still available for development, including sites with direct airside access and a 285-acre Duke Energy Ready Site. Airport planning materials also identify Parcel 3 as 9.3 acres of single-hangar build-to-suit sites beside Runway 3/21, and the airport says American Flyer Way will be extended to provide roadway access to those parcels. That kind of infrastructure work signals that the county is not simply accommodating demand, it is shaping where that demand lands.
The airport’s changing business mix has already been underway. In 2023, Bluewater Aviation announced plans for 17 private, corporate and executive hangars plus a runway-side restaurant on 12.8 acres, adding competition and more aviation-related activity on the airfield. At the same time, some users of an aging Experimental Aircraft Association hangar raised concerns that demolition could force them to find replacement space or face higher rent. A 2026 aviation industry report said American Aviation’s expansion would push its hangar inventory to more than a quarter-million square feet, underscoring how BKV’s growth is steadily converting open land into aviation real estate and putting Hernando County’s planning decisions at the center of that expansion.
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