Dulles Jet Center, the corporate hangar facility at Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., which suffered roof collapse due to a massive snowstorm on February 6, has been forced to curtail services that made the company appear to be an FBO. According to a U.S. District judge’s opinion last month, Landow Aviation Limited Partnership, which spent $37 million to build Dulles Jet Center (DJC) on 19
acres subleased from neighbor Signature Flight Support, was never permitted to service transient aircraft or otherwise act as an FBO. Signature testified that eight to 10 transient aircraft per day were using DJC in late 2008 and early 2009. DJC advertised itself as an FBO, according to the judge’s opinion, and even attempted to persuade the airport’s management that Signature was providing inadequate fuel service, in an attempt to secure fuel service for DJC.
In August 2008, the airport wrote, “Dulles Jet Center is primarily intended to be a corporate hangar facility, providing hangar space and services for corporations who base their jets at Dulles Jet Center.
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