Maintenance and Modifications
MRO Profile: Altus Aerospace, 31 Years and Counting
Maintaining bizjets and commericial airliners at Long Island’s MacArthur Airport
Aircraft undergoing maintenance in Altus hangar
Altus Aerospace handles up to 10 business jet repair projects at any given time in its three hangars at Long Island MacArthur Airport. © Kristen Steinhardt/Altus Aerospace

Altus Aerospace, a maintenance provider based at New York’s Long Island MacArthur Airport, traces its roots back to 1995 as privately owned Eastway Jet Services. After a stint under private equity ownership as part of the Hawthorne Global Aviation Services group, it was brought back under private ownership in 2023. Despite the changes in who signed the checks, the company has operated under the same Part 145 certificate for the past three decades.

Altus occupies three 30,000-sq-ft hangars on the field, the site of the former Garrett Long Island facility. While one hangar was built as recently as 2020, the oldest dates back to the 1940s. According to Chris Zarzano, the company’s v-p of maintenance services, it was used to load military transport aircraft heading to Germany for the Berlin Airlift.