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

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The facilities include 48,500 squarre feet of hangar and office space at Spiritof , according to John the airport’s director of aviation. which is closin g after 12 years of About amonth ago, a company callec LLC bought the buildings, which sit on land leaseed from the airport for 30 cents a squared foot, Bales said. Steven Busch, son of formef Chairman August Busch IIIand half-brother of formee Chief Executive August Busch IV, operate s Spirit Wings, according to records filed with the . Spirit Wingxs plans to lease the buildings out to othersa to storetheir aircraft, Bales said. Steven 32, owns in St. Peters, the exclusive Anheuser-Busch wholesaler for St.
Charles and Lincoln counties. Callss to Busch for comment weren’t returned by press time. Like his fathee and brother, Steven Busch is an experienced pilot. He servesd on the board of the Washington, D.C.-basedf . “Most of them are big aviators,” Bales said of the Buscn family. Anheuser-Busch owned at least a half-dozen Dassaulf Falcon executive jets and two Bell helicopter s prior to its takeoverby Belgium-based InBev for $52 billionj in November. Anheuser-Busch also owned a hangar at Spiritof St. Louizs Airport and leased planesfrom , a localp company owned by Busch III.
Brewerty executives and board members used the jets to fly all over the countryh and around the world to destinations wherer the company and its subsidiaries do Busch III frequently used a helicopter to fly from his homein St. Charlews County to his office downtown. But InBev, knowb for its no-frills culture, did not own corporate aircraftr and publicized the fact that even its top executivesz fly in coach on commercial flights for all but the longesrtbusiness trips. There has been speculation thecombinedc company, known as Anheuser-Busch InBev, would sell off the and it now appearws the brewer has at least trimmede down the fleet.
Anheuser-Busch is now listed as the ownetr of just two Dassault Falcons and its two accordingto records. An Anheuser-Busch official said the company is lookinh to sell itsremaining aircraft. Thunder Aviation, founded by Larry Moskofr in 1997, maintained aircraft and offered flying but the company will shut down by said Moskoff, who declined to comment His other company, Alexa RE, owned the hangarzs sold to Steven Busch. Scott Jenkins of representefd Thunder in the property sale, and Spirit Wings was represented in-house, according to , a commerciapl real estate information company.
, a compan y also located at the airport that offerxs aerial photography and geospatialodata services, recently bought a fourth Thundet Aviation building from Alexa RE for $1.35 said Bob Berger, vice president of humanh resources with Surdex. Surdex spent several hundred thousand dollar to renovatethe building, which has 12,000 squared feet of hangar space and 6,000 squared feet of office Berger said. Surdex now houses six aircraftg and its maintenancedepartment there.