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Aero Star Aviation Builds a Legacy on Embraer Bizjets

The maintenance, repair, and overhaul group is also expanding into Citation support

Aero Star Aviation hangar with Phenom 300 — Aero Star Aviation has built its MRO business with a specialty in Embraer business jets. © Kerry Lynch/AIN

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

September 22, 2026

Beginning his business with a little bit of cash on hand and a credit card with a 0% interest rate, Aero Star Aviation founder and president Christopher Grinnell embarked on his vision of building a maintenance, repair, and overhaul shop specializing in Embraer business jets in a rented hangar at Dallas Executive Airport (KRBD).

Just a little more than a decade later, Grinnell’s business has moved to a rapidly expanding footprint at Dallas Love Field (KDAL), encompassing four hangars formerly occupied by companies such as Gulfstream Aerospace and Elliott Aviation that span more than 100,000 sq ft of space. Aero Star employs nearly 100 people, runs four shifts around-the-clock with plans for a fifth, and has a backlog of work from companies such as NetJets, Wheels Up, and a multitude of individual owners. And as Aero Star continues to raise its profile, it is exhibiting for the first time at the 2026 NBAA-BACE.

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