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FBO Profile: Standard Aviation Reinvents the Caribbean FBO

Since its start in 2015, Standard Aviation has turned the FBO situation at St. Thomas' Cyril E. King Airport on its head.

Standard Aviation at Cyril E. King Airport on St. Thomas — Standard Aviation's 24,000-sq-ft, hurricane-resistant hangar is the largest private aircraft shelter in the Caribbean. Having been established in 2015, the FBO now claims to service the lion's share of private aviation flights at Cyril E. King Airport. (Photo: Chris Curreri/Standard Aviation)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

January 23, 2023

Standard Aviation, an FBO at St. Thomas’s Cyril E. King Airport (TIST), began in 2015, but once its permanent facility opened in October 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, things really took off. General manager Sabina Rosario recalled the surreal ribbon cutting, with the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands in attendance, seats spread 20 feet apart, and everyone wearing a Standard Aviation face mask.

Since then, the facility has emerged as one of the pre-eminent FBOs in the region, logging more than 3,500 movements in 2022. The location’s peak season normally stretches from November through May, with many customers coming either to their second homes on-island, or their home off-island in the form of a yacht.

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