A trio of hungry aviators clamber out of a Mooney parked in front of the headquarters of Micco Aircraft in Fort Pierce, Florida. The pilot inquires about getting fuel, while the others ask directions to the restaurant. That’s one of the problems that crop up when you build an airplane factory in a former FBO building.
Inside the 40,000-square-foot factory Micco has erected next to its headquarters, 95 workers are welding steel, running wire and riveting sheet metal, turning out the Micco SP20.