Founded

2002

Headquarters

Houston

Key People

Jeremy Gee, CEO

Number of Employees

118

Phone Number

(713) 645-9464

Website

Wing Aviation

Wing Aviation

With nearly 30 business jets and turboprops, Houston-based Wing Aviation boasts the largest private fleet available for on-demand charter from Texas. It also offers a jet card program as well as aircraft management and sales.  

West Point graduate and U.S. Army aviator John Wing founded the company in 2002 as a Gulfstream maintenance facility at what was then Montgomery County Airport in Conroe, Texas, near Houston. An extension of the Wing Group, which managed power projects in China, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, Wing Aviation focused on providing customer service to maintenance and FBO operations in the Houston area. 

John Wing initially served as CEO and chairman of the board and his son, Brian, was president. The company soon built a 75,000-square-foot FBO and maintenance complex containing hangars, office space, a maintenance shop, and a paint facility large enough for a Bombardier Global Express or Gulfstream V. Wing added two more paint facilities within the next three years. By 2007 it had repair-station certification for several models of Gulfstreams, Hawkers, and Learjets and employed more than 50 people.  

In 2005 Brian became president and CEO of Wing Aviation Charter Services, a sister company under Wing Aviation offering aircraft management and charter.  

Former Million Air Charter executive vice president Jeff Reid took over as Wing Aviation president and CEO in 2008 and remained in this position through 2015, when the company was sold to Black Forest Ventures. Under Reid’s guidance, it earned the ARGUS Platinum rating in 2011, and it has renewed this rating ever since. It began offering aircraft financing services in 2013.

Shortly after Wing Aviation received FAA approval to operate on-demand charter to Cuba in 2017, the company opened a 16,500-square-foot single hangar bay facility at Addison Airport and launched the Ascend Jet Travel jet card program.

In 2020 the company moved its corporate headquarters to the Galaxy FBO (also owned by Black Forest Ventures) on William P. Hobby Airport and opened a Voyager Lounge for exclusive use by its charter customers and managed aircraft owners. Galaxy FBO CEO Jeremy Gee also became Wing Aviation CEO. 

Shortly after relocating to Hobby, Wing merged with Western Airways, based at nearby Sugar Land Regional Airport, and assumed all aircraft management and charter operations of the Western Airways fleet. 

In 2021, Wing earned or re-earned ARGUS Platinum, Wyvern Wingman, and IS-BAO Stage III certifications, becoming one of only a few charter operators worldwide to hold all three designations concurrently.