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Piedmont Express Inc company history timeline

1990

1990 – TIMCO Aviation Services opens its world headquarters at PTI. Over the following two decades, the company would grow into one of the world’s largest independent aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul providers.

1993

In 1993, Henson was renamed Piedmont Airlines in order to preserve the Piedmont identity within the USAir Group family.

1994

The most dramatic move came in 1994, when USAir agreed to allow the Express carriers to handle their own flights at six major hubs and stations in the East.

1994 – Cessna Aircraft Company, later referred to as Textron Aviation, held the grand opening of their Greensboro Citation Service Center at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

1997

In 1997, USAir itself underwent a name change, becoming US Airways.

As of mid-1997, Piedmont was operating a fleet of 48 Dash 8s and enplaning three million passengers a year.

1998

1998 – FedEx Corporation announces its intentions to build a mid-Atlantic hub at PTI, one of only five FedEx hubs in the country.

2006

2006 – The airport opens an expansion to the North Concourse, which adds another 40,000 square feet to the terminal and brings the number of gates to 25.

2008

2008 GTCC expands its aviation school presence with the construction of a $7.5 million, 41,000 square foot classroom building near the airport campus and by adding an aviation manufacturing degree program.

2011

2011 – The airport begins a major interior renovation project to provide passengers with a superior airport experience.

2017

2017 – The North Carolina Department of Transportation completes work on a nine-mile stretch of I-73 that runs through airport property and includes a taxiway bridge that will connect the existing airport property to approximately 800 acres of airport property on the opposite side of the interstate.

2022

The new, $61 million tower is expected to be commissioned in 2022.

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