FBO of the Week: Monadnock Aviation (Dillant-Hopkins Airport, Keene, NH)

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Key Takeaways:

  • AVweb's "FBO of the Week" features Monadnock Aviation at Dillant-Hopkins Airport (EEN) in Keene, New Hampshire.
  • Nominated by a regular patron, Monadnock Aviation is lauded for revitalizing the Keene airport within its first year under owners Beth and Rick Bendel.
  • Their initiatives include bi-weekly free cookouts, sponsoring safety seminars, community outreach, and providing comfortable facilities for transient pilots.
  • AVweb encourages readers to submit nominations for other outstanding FBOs to be highlighted in future spotlights.
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As much as we love stories where a pilot discovers a great new FBO because of an unplanned (and often maintenance-related detour), we’ve featured quite a few of those as “FBOs of the Week” lately. This week, turn our attention instead to an FBO that was nominated by one of its regular patrons. AVweb reader Peter Lehnen laid out the benfits of Monadnock Aviation at Dillant-Hopkins Airport (EEN) in Keene, New Hampshire on their first anniversary:

Beth and Rick Bendel, who started their business one year ago today, have single-handedly revitalized the Keene airport. I just returned from one of their bi-weekly free cookouts, where many people fly in and many local pilots get together. They sponsor safety seminars, lectures, comunity outreach, and comfortable and functional facilities for transient pilots. The improvements they have brought are too numerous to list, but the city of Keene and the pilots in the area are far better off than at any time in the previous ten years that I have used this airport.

Keep those nominations coming. For complete contest rules, click here.

AVweb is actively seeking out the best FBOs in the country and another one, submitted by you, will be spotlighted here next Monday!

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