Heyward Douglass keeps the keys to the Clemson University plane handy. The University pilot flies it on a near-daily basis. It's just one state-owned aircraft kept in a hangar at a remote location. There are costs to keeping it locked up, under surveillance and maintained.

That?s why Governor Mark Sanford is considering the idea of keeping all state-owned aircraft at one location. He says the system now is wasting tax money.

?They are totally owned and paid for by state taxpayers right now. Why not run them in a common (area) rather than everybody having their own planes,? said Sanford.

Governor Mark Sanford says he wants to save your tax money by bringing all the planes to one location. But when we brought his idea to Douglass, we could tell we struck a bad chord.

A round trip to Columbia, for example, would be empty. You're talking about hundreds of dollars which wouldn't be efficient,? said Douglass.

State leaders have considered the idea in the past. But it hasn?t gotten very far with pilots.