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Venture Capital Firm Acquires Central Flying Service
Tricoastal Ventures also owns Texas-based aircraft dealers American Kodiak and Volare Air.
Arkansas’s oldest aviation company, Central Flying Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, has been acquired by venture capital firm Tricoastal Ventures. (Photo: Central Flying Service)
Arkansas’s oldest aviation company, Central Flying Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, has been acquired by venture capital firm Tricoastal Ventures. (Photo: Central Flying Service)

Aviation services company Central Flying Service (CFS) in Little Rock, Arkansas, has been acquired by venture capital firm Tricoastal Ventures in a 100 percent stock transaction. CFS, based at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, is Arkansas’s oldest aviation company. Founded and owned by the Holbert family, it offers Part 145 MRO, aircraft management, and charter. It also incorporates a flight training business.