Omni Air Transport has been working hard on its maintenance business Omni Aircraft Maintenance, which recently became a Gogo dealer. The company traditionally specialises in working on Learjet 45 aircraft, but director of production Blake Wooten says that the operation has diversified of late into other types: “Things have been going great. We’ve been doing a lot of external maintenance. Recently we’ve seen the King Air 200 and 300 series as well as Citations 550 and 560 series business pick up. Typically we have done a lot of maintenance for our sister company Omni Air Transport, but as we grow we want to expand and bring in more external customers as well, but that’s a slow and steady process.”

Omni is preparing to move into another hangar on the field at Tulsa International Airport. Its Part 135 charter operation and Part 145 maintenance company have been operating out of the same hangar, but as business has grown maintenance has needed more space, so it is going to move the maintenance hangar over to one location, leaving the charter operation in the other hangar.

Wooten continues: “We recently became a Gogo dealer so we are working on more installation jobs and focusing on that as a dealership, installing wi-fi. With the new hangar avionics installations are a new addition to our capabilities that we feel we can expand on and become a dealer for other manufacturers. There are a lot of people replacing ATG with L3 or L5 systems, and Gogo's Galileo global satellite solution is on the way.

“The aircraft types we work on really depends on what is needed in the market. I don’t think we would really turn anything away. We’re looking to add the Citation 560 to our capability list. We are always looking to evaluate what the need is in the market and expand our capabilities accordingly. We follow where the requests are.”

Omni is well booked up for the rest of this year. It has quite a few slots available on the schedule for next year but the picture can, and often does, quickly change.