Ventura Air Services

Ventura Air Services is a private aviation company headquartered at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York, with a second office on Elm Hill Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Its website traces the business back to 1955, when it began as a small charter operation on Long Island.

The company presents itself as an operator rather than a broker, stating that it manages its own fleet. Its offering covers on-demand private jet charter, a jet card program, empty-leg flights and urgent charters, including organ and medical transport flights.

Alongside charter, Ventura provides aircraft management, maintenance and avionics support, and aircraft sales. It runs a charter lease program for owners of Cessna Citation Excel, XLS and XLS+ jets and Bombardier Challenger 604, 605 and 650 aircraft, placing those aircraft on its charter certificate.

Aviation trade outlet AIN reported in April 2021 that Ventura was growing its Part 135 charter fleet with Citation Excels and had added two Challenger 604s in late 2020. The current size and mix of the fleet is not published in detail on the website.

The company states that it holds an ARGUS Platinum rating, and its website also displays a Wyvern Registered Operator badge. Its city pages cover New York, Miami, Nashville and Farmingdale, and its charter estimator lists departure points in Florida and the Bahamas.