Andy Chan, the CEO of Right Rudder Aviation, said Monday he wants to “stay in Citrus County forever and retire here.”
But to do so, the county will have to live up to the contractual agreement made when it selected his company five years ago to be the fixed-based operator at the Inverness Airport.
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