Causey Aviation is what a family builds when it never stops flying: an ARGUS Gold rated Part 135 charter operation, aircraft management for owners, and now a brand-new hangar and fuel facility at Piedmont Triad International.
In 1962, Benson Causey opened Causey Airport (NC74) south of Greensboro, a family airfield that still operates today. What began as one family's love of flying grew into a full aviation company: charter, aircraft management, and hangar and fuel services trusted by owners and operators across the region. Today the third generation runs the operation from a newly built campus at KGSO, and you still deal directly with a Causey.
Winfield and Charlie Causey are farming with their father Benson when flying takes hold, and the family turns from furrows to runways, laying a grass strip on the farm at Liberty, NC.
The hobby becomes a business: Causey Aviation Service, Inc. is founded at the family airfield, Causey Airport (NC74), still operating today, and the start of six decades of North Carolina aviation.
Causey earns its FAA Part 135 on-demand air carrier certificate and begins flying charter and managing aircraft for owners, to the standards we'd demand for our own family.
The new hangar and Jet-A fuel facility opens at Piedmont Triad International, designed by Lindsey Architecture and built by Hamlett Associates of Colfax. Hangar, fuel, crews, and charter on one private campus, and the company's first facility of its own in Greensboro after nearly six decades of flying here.
Central North Carolina — the Carolina Core, a 150-mile corridor from Winston-Salem to Fayetteville — has become one of the country's fastest-growing advanced-industry regions: four certified megasites, Toyota's $14 billion battery plant, and a statewide push into advanced air mobility. Causey sits at two points on that map.
Our hangar, fuel, and charter base sits on the airport that anchors the corridor's PTI Aerospace megasite. When aerospace and manufacturing names bring people and aircraft to the Triad, we're already on the field.
The family's original airfield — Causey Airport (NC74) — is a privately controlled, 3,800-foot field in the center of the corridor, directly across the road from the Greensboro-Randolph megasite. Permission-only, uncongested airspace makes it a natural site for UAS, eVTOL, and defense-contractor flight testing.
A named partner in North Carolina's eVTOL future. Causey Aviation and Causey Aviation Unmanned are named partners in eLIFT-NC, North Carolina's project in the FAA's national eVTOL Integration Pilot Program — alongside Beta Technologies, Joby Aviation, UNC Health, WakeMed, and UPS Flight Forward.
The family's own field, Causey Airport (NC74) in Liberty, gives us something few operators can offer: a controlled, private airfield for flight testing. A 3,800-foot runway and open, low-traffic airspace make it well suited to UAS and drone programs, eVTOL and advanced air mobility, and defense contractor flight tests. Private and discreet, yet minutes from Greensboro (GSO) and within easy reach of RDU and the Carolinas. Our sister company, Causey Aviation Unmanned, is one of the few Part 135 companies operating drone delivery at scale in the U.S.
Testing a new platform, sensor, or aircraft? We'd welcome a conversation about flying it at our field.
On-demand air carrier certificate. Charter flown to commercial standards, backed by a full FAA/DOT drug and alcohol testing program.
A certificated airframe & powerplant mechanic on site for routine service: tires, wheels, brakes, and scheduled tasks.
Independent third-party safety rating of our charter operation.
Three generations, since 1967. No private equity, no franchise. Just Causeys.
Third-generation Causey. Runs the operation day to day. Management clients and hangar tenants deal with Jeff directly.
Leads the charter desk and flight operations: crews, scheduling, and the 24-hour charter line.
Leads maintenance: routine service in our own hangar, maintenance oversight for managed aircraft, vendor coordination, and AOG response.
Causey Aviation Unmanned, our sister company, holds a standard FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate and FAA approval to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) — one of a handful of federally certificated drone-delivery air carriers in the United States. As Flytrex's operating partner, it has flown over 250,000 deliveries and counting to homes and hospitals across North Carolina. Different aircraft, same family standard.
Tours by appointment · (888) 866-8965 · 260A N. Regional Rd, Greensboro