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Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport
MTU Maintenance Fort Worth celebrates the official opening of its modernized facility at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance. [Photo: David Loi, MTU Maintenance]
MTU Maintenance Fort Worth Celebrates New Alliance Facility
by Dave Head | Jul 9, 2026
The company marked the completion of its $120 million modernization with a ribbon-cutting and the induction of its first CFM LEAP engine, part of a buildout expected to grow the site’s workforce to more than 1,200.
by Lance Murray |
Aug 27, 2025
TruWeather Solutions said the initiative deployed across Hillwood's AllianceTexas will support the safe and reliable growth of next-gen transportation technologies, ranging from drone delivery to autonomous trucking and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2025
Christopher Ash will oversee all operations at Perot Field, including management of the airport, fixed-base operations (FBO), and commercial fueling services, while advancing the airport’s position as one of the top 20 cargo hubs in the United States.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 24, 2025
Southlake-based Aerolane aims to use the same technique that delivered U.S. troops on D-Day to deliver cargo across the country. But its towed cargo glider, the Aerocart, comes with a 21st-century autonomous edge.
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The BNSF intermodal at AllianceTexas in 2023. [Photo: Debra Hale/Hillwood]
$80M Federal Grant Fuels Launch of Hillwood’s AllianceTexas Smart Port, a ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Project
by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray | Oct 25, 2024
The $262M public-private initiative—a partnership of Hillwood, TxDOT, NCTCOG, the City of Fort Worth, and the City of Haslet—aims to transform logistics with real-time tracking.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 9, 2024
Alliance Westport 24 will be a 1.1 million-square-foot, cross-dock facility designed with additional land to provide up to 704 onsite trailer parking spaces—the highest number available in the market—with the expansion of up to four total onsite truck courts, Hillwood said.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 18, 2024
The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, will pilot low-altitude weather sensors on freight routes used by autonomous vehicles.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2023
Thirty-five years after developing Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport and after decades of booming economic impact at AllianceTexas, Dallas-based Hillwood is making its first-ever play in the Panther City's downtown district.
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Rendering of the bronze statue of H. Ross Perot, Sr. in the airport's plaza. [Image: Hillwood]
Fort Worth Alliance Airport Now Bears H. Ross Perot Sr.’s Name
by Lance Murray | Dec 20, 2022
Thirty-three years after launching as the world's first industrial airport, Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport now bears the name of the man who believed in its ultimate promise.
"My dad wholeheartedly believed Fort Worth Alliance Airport would be the centerpiece of an unprecedented jobs corridor in Texas,” said Ross Perot Jr., chairman of The Perot Group and Hillwood.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 30, 2022
The new "fixed-based operation" facility at the heart of AllianceTexas will have over 20,000 square feet of "highly amenitized lounges" and meeting facilities and 68,000 square feet of attached hangar space.
Scheduled for completion in December, It will expand the airport's offerings with additional, "first-class" accommodations for flight crews, as well as more flexible, spacious lounges for pilots and passengers.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 11, 2022
The airport moved up three spots to No. 20 in the FAA rankings. It landed more than 2.4 billion pounds of cargo in 2021, a volume increase of nearly 46% from the previous year.
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