Leading Edge Aviation, which operates an FBO and charter operation at Bend (Ore.) Municipal Airport, received unanimous approval on Tuesday night from the Redmond, Ore. city council to establish a second FBO at that city’s Roberts Field Airport, which is currently served by Butler Aircraft Services.

The company was awarded an initial five-year lease on an existing 4,000-sq-ft terminal that it will renovate. According to Leading Edge vice president Travis Warthen, pending the success of the venture, that building will serve as the FBO’s temporary home under plans that call for construction ofanother facility in return for an extended lease.

Also included in the current 3.5-acre leasehold are a 12,000-sq-ft World War II-vintage hangar and a 5,000-sq-ft maintenance hangar that will be used as a satellite facility for the company’s Part 145 repair station at Bend Municpal. The airport installed a new fuel farm with 20,000-gallon jet-A and 12,000-gallon avgas capacity to supply the new FBO, and there is an option for another 4.2 acres of ramp that Leading Edge can exercise by 2017. The company expects to begin operations at the airport, offering a pair of 7,000-foot-plus runways and a helipad, by the beginning of next month.