Alexandria Aviation Inc.

10/17/2026

What an incredible story for Elliot and LifeLink III!

We are so fortunate to have Life Link III based in our community.

Props go out to Caleb as well, one of the local pilots, for going above and beyond to check in on Elliot and his progress. A great example of the true sense of community!

10/15/2026

You can never have enough hangar space. Here we have a couple temporary tenants in different commercial hangar stalls of our Bellanca Building back in September.

Looking for a home for your aviation business? We may have a spot for you here in Alexandria!

10/14/2026

Rachel's article in the Echo Press jogged my memory on the Bellanca T-250.

While Bellanca is best known for their Viking line of airplanes, Bellanca Aircraft was also a 'go-to' company for small developers who designed a concept airplane and wanted it built out. Most notably, Bellanca contracted with Eagle Aircraft to build the DW-1 cropduster between 1980-1982. They did this in the currently vacant warehouse building on airport property off of 34th Ave. Last week we shared a photo of a DW-1 on our ramp.

Another company that contracted with Bellanca was Anderson-Greenwood for their T-250 Aries. Anderson-Greenwood had previously designed some unique but unsuccessful airplanes in the past. Their T-250 was designed to compete with the pipular Bonanzas, Mooneys, etc of the mid-1970's.

The T-250 was ultimately a flop. From my research, only two of them are left flying. One in Texas and one in California. Once every few years I get a picture sent to me from friends of mine who see them sitting on a ramp at an airport (see photo in comments).

The T-250 is also one of the only Bellanca products I've personally never seen at AXN. Maybe we need to bring one back?

- Kreg

This week in history in Douglas County.

10/13/2026

Float planes and fall weather look good on Alexandria 😎

10/09/2026

Apparently we like collecting big tailwheels on our ramp 🤔

10/07/2026

We may have caught him mid-oil change, but Angel Flight Central pilot Jim Conn comes to us for Volume 4 of On the Ramp!

10/05/2026

Holy dirt piles 😳😳

Our Bellanca ramp is getting a full-blown reconstruction through and FAA and State grant!

I bet this asphalt hasn't been touched in 40+ years. Slowly but surely the Bellanca Building is coming back to life!

Maybe some paint next? 🤔

10/03/2026

Last week we were seeing double when two Minnesota Department of Transportation planes showed up!

The Quest Kodiak (high wing) was finishing up our airport inspection, while the Beech King Air (in the background) flew some employees out to survey ongoing road construction projects in the area.

While you may think the State's airplanes are solely for transportation of the Governor's office, it is actually only a small segment of what they do. Transporting state employees to jobsites and meetings helps with their efficiency - especially for communities in our state that are many, many driving hours away from St. Paul.

10/02/2026

Go cast your vote for Wipaire and their Fire Boss floats!

We started with 64 amazing products in our search for the Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota and public voting has narrowed it down to our FOUR finalists:

• Teardrop Trailers by Vistabule Teardrop Trailers

• Trackchair by ATZ Manufacturing

• Fire Boss aerial firefighting system by Wipaire

• Bair Hugger Warming System by Solventum

Now you get to decide the 2026 Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota! Vote for ONE of our FOUR finalists at CoolestThingMN.com!

10/01/2026

Here's a blast from the past!

In the foreground is most of our rental fleet at the time (N7687M - Cessna 175, N8408L - Piper Warrior, N12509 - Cessna 172) resting between flights. In the background are two Gulfstreams owned by 3M - likely brining in employees for a weekend retreat at Arrowwood.

There is no date listed on the photo - but I am thinking this was from some time in the 1990's.