This Airport Management Tower in Colorado Is Now a Brewery — With 6 Bowling Alleys and a Wright Flyer Plane Inside

Setting foot in an airport management tower is a dream held by vacationers and aviation fanatics alike. The management tower is, in any case, the brains behind the continuing dance of exits, arrivals, and airspace. Add a beer and a mountain view, and also you’re golden. It’s all on faucet at FlyteCo Brewing in Denver, which opened its second location in a defunct airport management tower.

The tower couldn’t ask for higher tenants. FlyteCo Brewing is an aviation-themed brewery that’s already made waves for the salvaged airplane wing and Boeing 737 fuselage duplicate that sit in its first location in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood. However FlyteCo’s newest enterprise, which is working out of the management tower that ran town’s worldwide airport between 1929 and 1995, takes that aviation fandom up a notch. 

“The chance to occupy the previous air site visitors management tower of a world airport couldn’t be handed up. We couldn’t have scripted a greater place to open FlyteCo 2.0,” says Morgan O’Sullivan, a FlyteCo Tower co-owner, in an interview with Journey + Leisure. 

At present, the brewery occupies the primary two flooring on the base of the management tower, however they are going to be increasing into the third ground with golf simulators, axe throwing, and personal occasion area. And O’Sullivan guarantees that it’s solely a matter of time till guests can sip their beer from the very prime of the tower.

“The thought of sipping a FlyteCo beer from the highest of a former air site visitors management tower, whereas watching the solar set behind the Denver skyline and Colorado’s Entrance Vary is a dream we’ll by no means let go of,” he says, noting that he foresees “the highest of the tower being accessible inside the subsequent two years.”

Along with the sheer thrill of ordering a flight-themed beer in a defunct management tower, the brand new brewery has performed up their location with two floor-to-ceiling aviation murals, a scale mannequin of a Wright Flyer plane, and runway markings. In addition they have a number of aviation-themed reveals on mortgage from the neighboring Wings Over the Rockies Air & House Museum. The tower is simply down the highway from town’s present worldwide airport and an aviation manufacturing facility that was was a market for native, independently owned companies. Plus, O’Sullivan notes that the “world’s largest airline-owned flight coaching heart, United Airways’ Flight Coaching Middle, that trains greater than 12,000 pilots yearly,” can also be close by. 

Contained in the control-tower-turned-brewery are six bowling alleys, mini golf, a full arcade, and garden and board video games. The faucet checklist contains aviation-themed brews just like the Vets in Jets Cream Ale, the Beechcraft Blonde Ale, and the Aeromexico Mexican Lager. There’s additionally a espresso store that serves bagel breakfast sandwiches. 

To present again to the neighborhood — significantly aviation fanatics like themselves — the house owners of FlyteCo Brewing give 10 p.c of their earnings from each brewery areas to nonprofits and scholarships that help the way forward for aviation.

O’Sullivan notes that so far, their 10 p.c dedication has gone to fund pilot scholarships with EAA Chapter 43, Stripes To Bars, Wings Over the Rockies Air & House Museum, Younger Aviators 43, and others. With a purpose to help “the way forward for aviation,” many scholarships supported by FlyteCo have gone to people who find themselves underrepresented within the trade — together with ladies, low-income pilots, and people who are transitioning out of the army.