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FBO Profile: J.A. Air Center
For many years, J.A.

For many years, J.A. Air Center was known solely for its maintenance and avionics services, which since 1975 have been housed at Dupage Airport in West Chicago, Ill.
But the company, which was founded as Joliet Avionics in 1965 at Joliet Airport, added maintenance and fuel services in 1982, and its owners felt that customers might not perceive a company named Joliet Avionics as a full-service FBO. They renamed the company J.A. Air Center, which stuck, even after the owners sold the fueling rights back to the airport authority.

In the early 1990s the Dupage airport authority had built the beautiful new Dupage Flight Center terminal, which did not attract transient traffic because the fuel concession still belonged to the FBO.