This construction project has been a huge part of my job since I started at the airport about a year and a half ago.  Please forgive me, I have to brag a little bit.

SGF Terminal – front
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Welcome to the new terminal for the Springfield-Branson National Airport!

SGF Terminal – ticket counters
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The terminal is designed around the nature of the Ozarks:  Water, Trees, and Geology.  The water theme is fairly obvious when you walk into the Main Hall, which houses the ticket counters and baggage claim.   I like the wavy stainless steel mesh along the ceiling that is meant to mimic the waves in the Ozarks lakes.

SGF Terminal – Wright Flyer
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A local experimental aircraft club built this replica of the Wright Flyer in 2003 and donated it to the airport.  It actually flew!  We had the plane in the old terminal, too, but it looks a lot better with the higher ceilings of the new terminal.

SGF Terminal – Route 66 Store
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We have couple of really nice new gift shops – a big upgrade from the old terminal.  Also – do you see the different colored bands of tile on the walls?  That's supposed to represent the geologic layers that you can see where the highway cuts through the rock of the Ozark Mountains.

SGF Terminal – Concourse looking south
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Once you get through security, you're in another water zone – I really like how the "stream" in the carpet is mirrored by the wavy walls above.

SGF Terminal – Jetbridge
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Last thing on your way out the terminal… down the jet bridge and away you go!