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Carver Aero Adds Sixth FBO
By: Curt Epstein
Caption: Carver Aero added a sixth location to its growing FBO network after it was selected to take over the facility at Illinois's Schaumburg Regional Airport.
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Midwest aviation services chain Carver Aero has added a sixth location to its growing FBO network after it was selected to take over the facility at Illinois’s Schaumburg Regional Airport (K06C). Carver Aero was given an initial five-year lease with an option to renew. Northwest Flyers, which continues to operate its aircraft charter/management business, decided to end its run operating the lone FBO at the airport after doing so since the village of Schaumburg acquired the dedicated general aviation airfield in 1994.

Located 25 miles from downtown Chicago, K06C has a 3,800-foot runway. “Schaumburg is the closest northern airport to the city of Chicago and its three million people,” said Carver CEO Guy Lieser. “We see tremendous opportunity to serve both the local community and Chicago’s business center.”

The FBO is based in the 26,000-sq-ft, two-story terminal that also houses a full-service restaurant upstairs, airport offices, and several other aviation businesses, in addition to a customer lounge and a 20-seat conference room. Open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. April-through-November and closing at 7 p.m. the remainder of the year, the facility has a 6,400-sq-ft hangar that can shelter aircraft up to a midsize business jet. As the newest location to join the Avfuel-branded dealer network, it offers full-serve jet-A and avgas, as well as self-serve avgas.

Carver also operates FBOs in Muscatine, Davenport, and Council Bluffs, Iowa; Janesville, Wisconsin; and Aurora, Illinois.