FBOs
FBO Profile: Fort Wayne Aero Center
An airport built and operated FBO in Indiana is ready and willing to show its stuff.
Fort Wayne Aero Center is one of a new breed of airport-built and operated FBOs that can rival many an established service provider location, in terms of style and customer comfort. (Photo: Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority)
Fort Wayne Aero Center is one of a new breed of airport-built and operated FBOs that can rival many an established service provider location, in terms of style and customer comfort. (Photo: Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority)

Airports usually get into the FBO operating business through one of two ways. The first is when the existing service provider either doesn’t want to or can no longer continue to, operate their facility and the airport is forced to step in to continue fueling operations until a longer-term solution can be found. In the second scenario, the lease for an existing provider has come to an end, and the airport board, wishing to increase its revenues and eliminate the middle man, decides to bring the FBO services in-house.