Story ID: 679 ExcelAire
ExcelAire Opens Teterboro Base
By: James Wynbrandt
Caption: Charter management company plans base, fleet expansions.
Word Count: 186
Charter management company ExcelAire (Booth 4226) is establishing a base at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, the company’s third U.S. location after its headquarters facility at MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., and Oakland International Airport in California. “With Teterboro being the busiest business aviation airport in the U.S., the opening of our office there is an important milestone for ExcelAire,” said president Robert Molsbergen, the former president of EJM who joined ExcelAire in August.

ExcelAire also announced that Vickie Mahoney is joining the company as vice-president of business development. She also will head the Teterboro office.

ExcelAire operates a fleet of 15 large-cabin business jets, which it will complement with midsize and super-midsize cabin jets over the next 24 months, Molsbergen said. A Citation Latitude and an Embraer Legacy 600 are among the aircraft slated to join the fleet shortly, the latter establishing ExcelAire as the “biggest Legacy 600 operator in North America,” with half a dozen operating, Molsbergen said.

ExcelAire also plans to open bases in Chicago and Atlanta, where parent company Hawthorne Global Aviation Services has FBOs.