1. THE FLY PAPER
MARCH 2010
SHOWALTER FLYING SERVICE
The Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)
400 Herndon Avenue
Orlando, FL 32803
Mark your
Based
Special points calendars! Customer Event!
of interest:
Please join us for an afternoon of
Based Customer food, fun and flying! This is our
Event
Airport Commercial
FOOD-O’Boy’s BBQ chance to thank you all for
Property Update FUN-Kid games & choosing
airport fellowship Showalter as
FLYING-Spot landing & your FBO home.
flour drop competitions We hope to see
you there!
Inside this issue:
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2 Sunday, May 2nd
Bahamas Gateway 2
1PM-4PM
FBO
Location: Showalter’s
HAI 2
meeting room at the east
Lodi’s Lowdown 2
end of the terminal building.
Tel: 407-894-7331
Email: events@showalter.com
What’s Happening to the Restaurants on Colonial Drive?
Since the mid-1980’s the funds to continually up- gan’s, and TGIFriday’s.
commercial development grade the airport’s com- Following much discus-
Contact us:
of the airport property mon use areas. The cur- sion and consultation
Phone: 407-894-7331 along Colonial Drive has rent economic conditions with professionals in the
Fax: 407-894-5094 contributed nearly 85% have certainly left a mark industry, the airport is in
E-mail: of the airport’s revenue on that development. In the process of demolish-
jenny@showalter.com
budget. These dollars the recent past we have ing these facilities in or-
Web:
www.showalter.com have allowed the airport seen the closure of: der to be positioned for
to operate in the black United Buffet, Amigo’s, new tenants when the
and have the necessary Pizzeria Uno’s, Benni- market (continued on page 2)

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returns. We are encouraged by the redevelopment of the former Herndon Plaza into
Colonial Landing by our developer Weingarten. In addition to Red Lobster and
Smokey Bones that center has added a Pollo Tropical to the site. We still have
Sweet Tomatoes in the Colonial Promenade and Tropical Smoothie Café in the Hern-
don Village Shoppes. Your continued support of our aviation and commercial ten-
ants is greatly appreciated.
~Kevin McNamara, Director of General Aviation KORL
Bahamas Gateway FBO
Our very own JB Angel Those of you who have been in the lobby recently may have noticed some Bahamas
(pictured above) and Dan themed stuff lying around in random places. There may be even more of that com-
Nodorft traveled to Houston ing as we are now an official Bahamas Gateway FBO! The program is actually very
last month to help set up neat and is a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the Bahamas Ministry of
the Helicopter Association Tourism. The idea is to take the stress out of flying to the Bahamas for a newbie
International show. and the idea works. B-Rad and I flew down to KFXE on Saturday Feb 20th to partici-
Showalter has been involved pate in the first annual “Bahamas Day” at Banyan Aviation and had a great
with this show for many time. The event featured seminars for pilots on everything from Customs proce-
years moving display heli- dures to preparing your aircraft
copters in and out of the for overwater flight. There was
trade show venues. even a really cool performance
by a Bahamian Junkanoo band
We look forward to having
that you just had to see to be-
HAI here in Orlando next
lieve. If you would like to learn
year!
more about flying to the Baha-
mas you can come see B-Rad or
me, or even better keep your
Notable Quote eyes peeled for another Baha-
mas Day event at another Gate-
way FBO. Once the next event
Flying is scheduled we’ll get the word
might not out to you all. Flying to the
Bahamas is super easy and
be all great fun, plus we are happy to
Pictured: Sandy Showalter making friends
plain sail- with a Bahamian Police officer at Bahamas
help you plan the trip!
Day in Ft, Lauderdale, February 20th. ~Sandy Showalter
ing, but
Lodi’s Lowdown
the fun of The February question was correctly answered by Nicolas Musashe, Jim Heekin,
it is worth Mary Maher, Jerry Lutz, Kevin McNamara, Ken Wiseman and Guy Haggard. Charles
Lindberg is the famous aviator born on February 4th, 1902. Thanks for answering!
the price. In honor of the Women in Aviation conference recently held in Orlando, the March
question is:
~Amelia In WWII the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
was the brainchild of which famous aviator?
Earhart
Please submit all answers to jenny@showalter.com or call 407-894-7331.