Located at St. Augustine (Fla.) Airport (SGJ), Aero Sport has made its name as a sport and aerobatic flying headquarters. The company is the exclusive North American distributor for Extra Aircraft, the German manufacturer of competition-level, composite aerobatic airplanes and the Extra 400, a four-place, pressurized piston single. With recent refocusing on its FBO side, Aero Sport has diversified its interests, seeing a 15-percent increase in fuel sales last year, with a similar increase expected for this year. Aero Sport sold more than a million gallons of jet-A last year and better than 350,000 gal of 100LL. Capital improvements include construction of a new 10,000-sq-ft common hangar and four 3,600-sq-ft corporate tenant hangars. The existing 10,000-sq-ft hangar has also been refurbished and the ramp area repaved. Separately, the St. Augustine Airport has begun construction of a new control tower slated for completion in March.
Diane Moser, Aero Sport CEO, said, “Aircraft sales were $7 million in 2000 and about $9 million last year. Yearly, Aero Sport sells about 25 new and 25 used aircraft. On the FBO side of the business, jet fuel volumes run about half to based customers and half for transients.” Based customers have a bulk-fuel pre-buy option with increments from 3,000 to 8,000 gal, based on the previous year’s usage. Aero Sport hosts more than 80 based customers and sees a large transient presence from fractional operators, charter services and corporate flight departments.
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