Founded

2000

Headquarters

Lenexa, Kansas

Key People

John Owen, president and CEO

Number of Employees

200

Phone Number

(877) 483-5855

Website

Airshare

Airshare

Airshare offers fractional ownership and jet card access on 20 Embraer Phenom 100 and 300 light jets. The company—which is based in the Kansas City metropolitan area—also provides aircraft management and charter services, as well as maintenance services for third-party aircraft. 

Founded as Executive Airshare in 2000, when it offered quarter shares in two King Air turboprops, the company began as a subsidiary of Executive Aircraft Corporation, a Wichita, Kansas–based aircraft refurbishment and sales company. Bob Taylor, EAC’s CEO since 1998, purchased the fractional business along with investor Dave Murfin in 2001.

Executive Airshare built the fractional business by concentrating on smaller aircraft that could make regional trips of 300 to 700 miles. The company grew by expanding into new regional markets: Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005, Dallas/Fort Worth in 2006, San Antonio and Houston in 2014, Denver in 2018, and five locations in the upper Midwest U.S. in 2019. 

Executive Airshare moved its corporate headquarters to Kansas City, Kansas, in 2004 but continued its presence in Wichita, establishing an aircraft maintenance facility there that would earn FAA Part 145 repair station certification in 2008. That year the company also acquired Fort Worth–based Flight Services along with its fleet of managed aircraft; Airshare’s 38 available charter aircraft are all on the rebranded Executive Flight Services Part 135 certificate.

In 2007 the company ordered 10 Embraer Phenom 100 light jets. As lead customer, Executive Airshare took delivery of the first Phenom 100 in March 2009. Later that year, the company took delivery of the first Phenom 300 on behalf of a managed customer, becoming the first Part 135 operator of both the Phenom 100 and the 300. By 2016 Executive Airshare had added 10 Phenom 300s to its fractional fleet; and by 2021, it had 10 Phenom 100s and 16 Phenom 300s on its charter certificate. In May 2021, the company announced the purchase of three Bombardier Challenger 350 aircraft with options for 17 more.

The company reorganized with a majority recapitalization provided by longtime fractional ownership customer Curran Companies in 2016, with Taylor and Murfin maintaining significant minority stakes. That year John Owen joined the C-suite as chief financial officer; he became president and CEO in 2018.

Rebranded as Airshare in 2018, the company achieved IS-BAO Stage 3 safety certification in 2020, complementing the ARG/US Platinum rating it earned in 2018 and renewed in 2020.