Sky Harbour Group Corporation, an airport infrastructure company building the first nationwide network of home base operator (HBO) campuses for business aircraft, has announced the execution of a ground lease agreement with the City of Long Beach, California, for the development of a Sky Harbour HBO campus at Long Beach airport, serving the Long Beach, Orange County and Greater Los Angeles regions.

The proposed Sky Harbour campus will offer “the best home base in business aviation” to house southern California's top corporate and private business jets in state-of-the art hangars, with line services dedicated exclusively to based tenants, offering “the shortest time to wheels-up in business aviation.” The two-phase development on approximately 17 acres, is expected to create or sustain hundreds of local jobs and generate meaningful economic benefits for southern California.

Long Beach Airport, Sky Harbour's 19th home-base airport, joins Sky Harbour campus locations now operating at Houston's Sugar Land Regional, Nashville International, Miami Opa-Locka Executive, San Jose Mineta, southern California's Camarillo, Seattle's King County International Boeing Field, Phoenix Deer Valley, Dallas Addison and Denver Centennial; and campuses in development at Chicago Executive, Connecticut Bradley International, New York Hudson Valley Regional, Orlando Executive, Washington Dulles International, New York Stewart International, Salt Lake City, New Jersey Trenton-Mercer and Portland Hillsboro, with additional campuses to be announced soon.

Tal Keinan, Sky Harbour CEO comments: “Long Beach has successfully established itself as a hive of innovation, most notably in the aerospace technology sector. Business aviation will increasingly power business innovation and economic growth in this community. The City of Long Beach, with the strong leadership of mayor Richardson, councilwoman Kerr and aviation director Cynthia Guidry, has been an outstanding partner to Sky Harbour, welcoming Sky Harbour to what is already one of the nation's largest and most dynamic business aviation markets. We are committed to delivering another best-in-class facility, upholding the new gold standard for safety, security and efficiency in business aviation, to the benefit of the citizens of Long Beach, Orange County and southern California.”

“We're delighted to welcome Sky Harbour to Long Beach,” states airport director Cynthia Guidry. “This agreement underscores Long Beach as an important hub for business aviation, which brings investment, jobs and revenue directly into the City and communities throughout our region.”

Sky Harbour's facility will include hangar space to house business aircraft of all sizes, with adjacent office space, operational infrastructure, and generous ramp and automobile parking.