Landing the High Fliers
Weslaco’s Mid-Valley Airport has secured the first new landing rights general aviation customs processing center that Customs and Border Protection has opened on the U.S.-Mexico border in 40 years. Because of its proximity to the Progreso International Bridge Port of Entry and the CBP agents stationed there, the airport’s Federal Inspection Services (FIS) processing center now offers “on-call” landing rights to private and charter flights arriving from Mexico. “We wanted…