During his 21 years in the U.S. Air Force as a civil engineering and mission support officer, James Chrisley designed and built runways and facilities for American military aircraft operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It was a great experience building things in areas that were not in the best of conditions,” Chrisley, incoming director of the Clark County Department of Aviation, recalled in an interview last week.
When asked about Ivanpah Valley, the site of a proposed Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport on 23,000 empty acres just north of Primm, he said harsh desert environments weren’t a concern.
Chrisley, who spent the past 10 years as the airport’s senior director of aviation, is inheriting the top job from retiring director Rosemary Vassiliadis, who has held the position since 2013.
