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On the list of industries in Eastern Iowa, aviation and aerospace have long been subcategories of transportation. The Eastern Iowa Airport is looking to change that.

Through a 10-year strategic growth plan, Marty Lenss, director of The Eastern Iowa Airport, said area leaders plan to alter the list, moving aerospace out from under transportation to give it its own category.

“We're going to move that sub bullet,” he said. “It's going to be its own bullet.”

To make that shift, the airport has been working on deepening its aviation roots across Eastern Iowa and beyond to bolster economic growth.

The goal is to create an “aerospace cluster” in the region that includes companies, suppliers, educa

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