Airshare, a fractional and managed aircraft company based in the Kansas City area, is looking to expand its heavy maintenance facility in Wichita to include third-party maintenance even as it takes on additional aircraft in its fractional fleet. The company, which was founded in Wichita in 2000 and relocated its headquarters to Lenexa, Kansas, five years later, has begun the process of opening maintenance to business aircraft other than the 50 jets in its fractional and managed fleet, CEO John Owen told AIN.
“It is a place in the organization where we think there’s a lot of opportunity,” Owen said of the Wichita maintenance facility. “That’s one of the things we’re looking at right now.” Operating from a 27,000-sq-ft hangar and an adjoining 7,000-sq-ft office at Col. James Jabara Airport (KAAO), the facility opened in 2005 when Airshare brought its maintenance in-house. The operation was originally located in a 20,250-sq-ft hangar at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport until the move to its purpose-built facility at KAAO in 2017.
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