FBO Profile: Cunningham Aviation at Arizona’s Falcon Field Airport

FBO Profile: Cunningham Aviation, Falcon Field Airport

Serving America’s busiest airport

Cunningham Aviation Hangar — Cunningham Aviation has 60,000 sq ft of aircraft storage space at Arizona’s Falcon Field Airport, including a recently acquired 12,000-sq-ft hangar that can accommodate the latest ultra-long-range business jets. In September, as part of a major expansion that includes a new terminal, the company will add another 30,000-sq-ft hangar.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

May 1, 2026

If you ask someone what the busiest general aviation airports are in the U.S., you might expect answers such as Teterboro Airport in New Jersey or Centennial Airport in Colorado. But, for sheer numbers of airplanes going up and down, Falcon Field Airport (KFFZ) is among them. The Mesa, Arizona airport last year saw nearly half a million operations, mainly due to its high concentration of flight schools. These numbers rivaled some of the busier airline hubs.

Cunningham Aviation is now the only full-service FBO on the field after it purchased rival Avflight’s facility last year. In 2020, owner George Cunningham bought a dilapidated 30,000-sq-ft hangar, which once housed Hughes Helicopters’ (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) assembly facility for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. After a million-dollar renovation, the company began operations as a hangar keeper the following year, offering ground handling.

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