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New Hampshire's air transportation system is composed of two segments: air carrier, or airline, and general aviation, which includes corporate business flying, air taxis, flight training, air cargo and emergency services.
New Hampshire for the most part depends on general aviation to conduct its air commerce because of the state's many small airports that are convenient to urban centers but not served by the airlines. How these general aviation craft get serviced and who services them is an integral part of the air system. Without these service organizations the state's general air transportation system -- and the country's, for that matter -- would literally come to a screeching halt.
Enhanced productivity and efficiency are often mentioned when the subject of a business airplane is described for executive travel, but all that precious time can be lost if the trip to the final destination from the airport is botched. All too often, that fast hour flight from the home city is overshadowed by the even longer wait on the ground because ground transportation was late arriving at the airport due to lack of coordination.
This is where the service organization called a fixed base operation, or FBO, is there to save the day. Through prior arrangement with the pilot, your car is waiting for you upon your arrival and ground travel time is kept to a minimum. The FBO is much like a super auto service station because it provides services required by plane and pilot, such as...