With 34 FBOs in the U.S. and Canada, Landmark Aviation has grown to be one of the larger FBO chains. The company was formed through the merger of Piedmont Hawthorne, Garrett Aviation and Associated Air Center, all of which trace their roots to the 1930s and 1940s. These aviation service companies started coming together in 2001, when Piedmont Hawthorne bought Associated. In 2004, private equity firm The Carlyle Group, which joined the FBO sector in 1998 with the purchase of Piedmont Hawthorne, bought Garrett Aviation and combined the two companies. The company operated under the unwieldy name Garrett/Piedmont Hawthorne/Associated until October 2005, when it adopted the name Landmark Aviation.
Landmark’s stable of FBOs, most of which used to be Piedmont Hawthornes, covers a broad spectrum of the aviation marketplace. The FBOs serve large airports, such as Dulles and Los Angeles International, and smaller ones such as Leesburg Airport in Virginia and North Palm Beach County in Florida. Then there is Rhode Island, where the company has a large share of the FBOs in a state with a small number of airports and has facilities at airports with minimal jet traffic. Landmark operates two FBOs at San Antonio International Airport. The chain’s only non-U.S. FBOs are in Canada at Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver.
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