Southern Sky Aviation Opens West Coast Charter Base

Southern Sky Aviation has opened a fourth location and added another jet to its Part 135 certificate, the Birmingham, Alabama-based business aviation services company announced this week.

The seven-seat 2000 IAI Astra SPX will be based at Scottsdale Airport (SDL) in Arizona, where Southern Sky has opened a new office inside the Signature Flight Support FBO there.

“Opening an Arizona-based charter operation and having a plane consistently based in Scottsdale allows us the much-needed opportunity to better serve our West Coast customers,” said Southern Sky CEO Bo Andrews. “We have been looking for the right opportunity to help our travelers more frequently reach the West Coast and are so pleased to expand charter, one of our company's most well-known services, to that market.”

The Scottsdale expansion follows the Southern Sky's opening last year of a charter office at Peachtree DeKalb Airport (PDK) near Atlanta. It also operates offices and a maintenance facility at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM), which was recently appointed as a Garmin-authorized dealership.

In addition to charter and maintenance, Southern Sky provides aircraft management and brokerage.