Aviation Company Bringing Jobs to Salina

An aviation company is planning to set up shop in Salina, bringing with it 50 jobs initially, and within three years up to 450 jobs. According to officials as the Salina Regional Airport, their largest hangar, Hangar 959, has been leased to 1 Vision Aviation. 1 Vision is currently headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa, and is FAA certified FAR part 145 repair station. The company is a complete maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility which provides all manner of airframe inspections and repairs as well as power plant work on many types of large air carrier sized aircraft. In addition, 1 Vision has a General Aviation division with both maintenance and avionics capabilities that is planned to be incorporated into the Salina operation. This division will work on smaller private planes up to and including corporate type aircraft. 1 Vision is operating at 100% capacity in Sioux City and has a growing list of airline customer contracts necessitating the expansion to Salina.