Aviation/Aerospace

Hondo positions your aviation enterprise less than an hour from the operations of global leaders like Boeing and Lockheed Martin and in the heart of Hondo’s flourishing aviation and aerospace cluster. Leverage immediate access to a skilled and experienced aviation workforce as well as other critical advantages and premier assets including:
 
South Texas Regional Airport. The region’s largest general aviation airport, the South Texas Regional Airport offers four runways ready to accommodate aircraft ranging from a small Cessna to a Boeing 767. And with 400,000’ of tarmac and apron space plus multimodal transit connections, the Airport assures a generous operational expanse as well as ease of movement.
 
Excellent site selection. Adjacent to U.S. Highway 90, the South Texas Airport and Intermodal Park offers 600 developable and affordable acres with the option of rail connection through Hondo Railway short line service connecting to UP and BNSF Class I service. Highway, rail and air—Hondo keeps your operation on the grow and on the move.
 
Workforce scale and specialized skill. Hondo offers the dynamic demographics to build a young energetic workforce team with the specialized skills for global competitiveness. Hondo’s average age is 31.2 years, and the labor pool within 50 miles is 2.2 million. Augmented by the high-caliber skills of separating service members of Joint Base San Antonio, Hondo’s robust and coordinated talent development pipeline includes:

• Southwest Texas Junior College, home to an official Part 147 General and Airframe Training School. Staffed by experienced instructors, STJC’s airframe mechanics program prepares and qualifies students to take the FAA exams for the general airframe license.
• STJC is only one component of a comprehensive training ecosystem. Serving as hub, the South Texas Regional Training Center provides one-stop ease and coordination for recruitment, screening and hiring in collaboration with Workforce Solutions Alamo.
• Customized training solutions for qualified projects are also available at no cost through the Texas Skills Development Fund.

 
A supportive and visionary community. Hondo is pro-business and pro-transit, continually seeking ways to improve local assets to keep the area’s high-flying companies at the top. The South Texas Regional Airport and Intermodal Park is an excellent example of this commitment. The result of a joint initiative of the City of Hondo and the Hondo EDC, the Intermodal Park is one of only two air-to-rail intermodal facilities in Texas.