Thunderbird Aviation is a leading aviation company providing services at Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie and at Crystal Airport in Crystal. Thunderbird Aviation provides full FBO (Fixed-Base Operator) services from its state-of-the-art executive terminal. It offers complete aircraft fueling, storage, detailing and maintenance. Thunderbird Aviation also offers full aircraft brokerage, valuation and search services. It has a large pilot shop with manuals, books, headsets, charts, gifts, and more. Additionally, the company provides flight training and aircraft tours. It also offers chartered aircraft transportation, with the largest fleet in Minnesota.
Airways Gifts is the store for the traveler who can remember when commerical airline travel was fun, comfortable and exciting. The store features a fascinating line of collectibles for aviation fans. "We celebrate the airlines as they were," said the store's owner. Gifts include detailed wooden flightcraft quality models, custom models, logo tails, color prints, logo stickers, collectors pins, baseball caps, lil' wings tie-tac replicas of commerical airline pilot wings, tiebars, license plate frames and logo stickers. Some 95 percent of the business is done by mail order, but Rosemount aviation fans should drop in and check out the exquisite models. A catalog is also available.
