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Operate · Develop · Advise

The runway is only the beginning.

Airport management, development, and advice for municipalities and airport owners. We connect daily operations with the decisions that shape an airport’s future.

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The operating record

Results you can measure.

Since 2010, TAP has managed San Marcos Regional Airport with an approach that connects daily operations, capital development, tenant growth, policy, funding, and long-range planning.

  • Funding / Cumulative $45M+ Total FAA funding secured
  • Economic impact / FY11–FY26 160% Growth in reported economic impact
  • Based aircraft / 2026 300+ Based aircraft · 2026
  • Annual operations / 2026 100K+ Annual operations · 2026

Figures are drawn from project records and TxDOT-commissioned economic impact studies. Read the operating record and the context behind these figures.

One operating perspective

Operate with a developer’s eye; develop with an operator’s discipline.

01 Operate

Keep the airport moving.

Daily operations, tenant relations, maintenance planning, financial administration, and coordination with the FAA and TxDOT.

Airport operations

02 Develop

Build for the long term.

Land use, capital projects, funding, leasing, and business recruitment grounded in the operating realities of the airfield.

Airport development

03 Advise

Turn analysis into action.

Business plans, rates and charges, market analysis, and practical next steps for airport owners and public agencies.

Advisory services

A TAP-managed airport · KHYI

San Marcos Regional Airport

A former military airfield between Austin and San Antonio has grown into an increasingly important part of the Central Texas aviation system. That transformation happened one decision, one project, and one opportunity at a time.

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San Marcos Regional Airport · Flight lineManaged by TAP since October 2010
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Jim Wimberly · President, Texas Aviation Partners

Built on experience

Jim Wimberly has spent a career learning what lasts.

His career has taken him from managing airports in Houston to the executive ranks of Southwest Airlines, with decades spent inside the decisions that shape aviation. That experience continues to inform TAP’s approach today: practical, deliberate, and grounded in how airports actually work.

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News from TAP and across Texas aviation.

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