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FBO Profile: American Aero FTW

Customer comfort is key at this Metroplex FBO

American Aero FTW's lobby was engineered with customer comfort in mind. It features self-tinting windows to shield the glare from the harsh Texas sun, and sound-proofing for a more relaxing environment. Above the CSR desk hangs a specially-commissioned sculpture, "Momentum" from New York artist Alyson Shotz.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

August 7, 2018

Dallas/Fort Worth's Meacham International Airport is one of the oldest airfields in the country, with more than nine decades of history. Today it is a dedicated general aviation airport, and the newest of its three FBOs is American Aero FTW, established in 2012. American Aero’s owners purchased an existing FBO, which was located in a crumbling 40,000-sq-ft hangar that once housed American Airways (later American Airlines) southwest headquarters. The company was determined to restore the 1933-vintage landmark structure and that building is now a separate storage hangar.

As for the main FBO facility, when the city decided to renovate the airport’s former 1960s-era administration building, stripping it down to its girders, the FBO’s ownership decided to join in a public/private partnership, assisted in the reconstruction, and carved out an 8,400-sq-ft terminal on the ground floor of the building. The modernized facility debuted in 2016.

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