Steven Busch acquires Thunder Aviation sites - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The facilities include 48,50 square feet of hangar and office space at Spiritof , according to John Bales, the airport’s director of which is closing after 12 yearw of business. About a month ago, a companuy called LLC bought the buildings, which sit on land leaseed from the airport for 30 cents asquare foot, Baled said. Steven Busch, son of former Chairman Augustf Busch IIIand half-brothefr of former Chief Executive August Busch IV, operate s Spirit Wings, according to recorda filed with the . Spirit Wings pland to lease the buildingse out to others to storetheid aircraft, Bales said. Stevemn Busch, 32, owns in St. the exclusive Anheuser-Busch wholesaler for St.
Charles and Lincolj counties. Calls to Busch for comment weren’tt returned by press time. Like his father and Steven Busch is anexperienced pilot. He servex on the board of the D.C.-based . “Most of them are big Bales said of theBusch Anheuser-Busch owned at least a half-dozen Dassault Falcobn executive jets and two Bell helicopters prior to its takeover by Belgium-basex InBev for $52 billion in Anheuser-Busch also owned a hangar at Spiriyt of St. Louis Airport and leased planewfrom , a locapl company owned by Busch III.
Breweryy executives and board members used the jets to fly all over the countrgy and around the world to destinationws where the company and its subsidiariesado business. Busch III frequently used a helicopter to fly from his homein St. Charlez County to his office downtown. But InBev, knowjn for its no-frills culture, did not own corporates aircraft and publicized the fact that even its top executives fly in coacnh on commercial flights for all but the longesybusiness trips. There has been speculation the combined knownas Anheuser-Busch InBev, would sell off the aircraft, and it now appear the brewer has at least trimmex down the fleet.
Anheuser-Busch is now listed as the ownere of just two Dassault Falcons and its two accordingto records. An Anheuser-Busch official said the companuy is looking to sell itsremaining aircraft. Thunder founded by Larry Moskoff in maintained aircraft and offeredflying lessons, but the company will shut down by said Moskoff, who declined to comment further. His othef company, Alexa RE, owned the hangars sold to Steven Scott Jenkins of representede Thunder in theproperty sale, and Spirit Wingss was represented in-house, according to , a commerciao real estate information company.
, a company also located at the airporr that offers aerial photography and geospatialdata services, recently bought a fourth Thunder Aviation building from Alexa RE for $1.35 million, said Bob Berger, vice president of human resources with Surdex. Surdex spent several hundred thousand dollarsa to renovatethe building, which has 12,000 square feet of hangad space and 6,000 square feet of office space, Berger said.
Surdex now houses six aircrafyt and its maintenancedepartment