Sweet Aviation

Sweet Aviation is an aviation company based at Smith Field Airport (SMD) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Its website lists further locations at Goshen Municipal Airport (GSH) and Auburn-DeKalb Executive Airport (GWB), and it describes itself as part of Surack Enterprises, alongside sister companies Sweet Helicopters and Enstrom Helicopter.

For private flyers, the relevant part of the business is on-demand charter. The company states that it holds an FAA Part 135 certificate, which means it operates charter flights on its own aircraft rather than only arranging them through third parties. Trade publication ch-aviation reported that the Part 135 charter fleet is based at Fort Wayne International Airport.

The fleet listed on its website includes Cessna Citation CJ4, Citation XLS+ and Citation XLS jets and a Pilatus PC-12 NGX turboprop. In September 2024 ch-aviation reported that Sweet Aviation bought four Citation jets from Aviation Charter Services together with the FBO at Goshen. The exact aircraft on the charter certificate at any time should be confirmed with the company.

A large share of the business is pilot training. The website describes a Part 141 flight school, aircraft rental, maintenance and detailing, and ch-aviation characterises the company as heavily focused on training. Flyers looking for charter should ask which aircraft are on the Part 135 certificate for their trip.