By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff Monday, November 30th, 2009

A San Luis Obispo-based aviation company that provides private jet charters has broken ground on a $10  million corporate jet center near the regional airport.

Aviation Consultants, a private company that runs the San Luis Jet Center, is building a massive new facility near the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. The nearly 80,000-square-foot project includes new office space and a larger hangar and is one of the nation’s few aircraft management stations to receive LEED certification.

“The thing about airplanes is that they need a lot of room,” Aviation Consultants President William Borgsmiller said. “We basically have completely maxed out our current space and can’t take on any new customers until we expand.”

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