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Boreal Aviation will be doing the maintenance, calibration, and fueling work for Delta/Sky West Airlines at the Delta County Airport.
The announcement was made Wednesday after a successful audit was done, which allows Boreal to provide those services not only to the airlines, but also, for general aviation in Escanaba.
Walt Paegel is the Maintenance Tech at Boreal Aviation.
“Being down in Escanaba, since we’re just at Sawyer and there’s no one in Escanaba, that means expansion for the business,” Paegel told RRN News. “It’s an opportunity for more people to hire on with Boreal, as far as aircraft maintenance and possibly fueling, in the long run.”
Those maintenance services were done by M-and-M Aviation in the past. Paegel says that company moved its services to Marinette/Menominee, leaving Escanaba with no maintenance provider.
Boreal Aviation is based at Sawyer International Airport in Gwinn, and Paegel saw this as a chance to expand his business.
From left to right in picture. Airport Manager, Jeffery Sierpien; Boreal Aviation Maintenance Tech, Walt Paegel ; SkyWest Airlines Quality Assurance Representative, Luke Egley (he flew in from Fort Wayne, IN); Assistant Airport Manager, Andrea Micheau; Delta Airlines Station Manager, Jennifer Nelson; Airfield Operations Tech, Dan Degrave .
