What to do with Google's jet fleet

Nathan Donato-Weinstein, Silicon Valley Business Journal

The San Jose project will include an executive terminal, hangars, ramp space "accommodating the largest business jets" and aircraft servicing facilities. A February 5 memo from aviation director Bill Sherry states that the project would be able to handle Boeing 737s and 767s. The development will include more than 270,000 square feet of LEED Gold facilities.

The memo states that the Signature bid beat out proposals from Atlantic Aviation and Ross Aviation, which didn't meet the airport's standards. Signature Flight Support is the world’s largest FBO and distribution network for business aviation services and has a nearby facility in San Francisco. The company offers fueling, hangar and office rentals, ground handling, maintenance and crew and passenger amenities, according to its website.

The proposed facility is a bit further from Google's Mountain View headquarters than Moffett Field, but could come with fewer headaches. The Google execs wanted to pay the $40 million restoration cost for the historic Hangar One at Moffett after its contaminated siding was taken off by Navy contractors and the structure was left with its skeleton exposed. In return, H211 would park its planes inside a portion of the hangar. But the company apparently got nowhere with the deal, and H211’s current lease comes due in July 2014. That lease has also attracted attention in the past, not all positive.

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