A multi-engine, instrument rated pilot, James Wynbrandt has been an AIN and Business Jet Traveler contributor since 2003. His in-depth reporting and insightful features have won more than a dozen editorial honors, including two National Business Aviation Association Gold Wing Awards (2019; 2021), and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune, Forbes, and Smithsonian Air &amp; Space. He has flown his Mooney M20K 252 on assignments throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean. Wynbrandt is also the author of Flying High (Wiley &amp; Sons), a biography of Jet Blue founder David Neeleman, as well as histories, references works, and books on a variety of other topics from major publishers. He lives in New York City.

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In the wake of opening a New York City sales and design center last week, Gulfstream Aerospace said on Monday at NBAA-BACE 2018 that it will construct a new, enlarged service center at its Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) location in Florida, the latest in a spate of recently announced service site expansions. Its planned 115,000-sq-ft&nbsp;PBI facility will include&nbsp;offices, back shops, and an approximately 75,000-sq-ft&nbsp;hangar&nbsp;located adjacent to a planned FBO operated by sister company Jet Aviation.

 


The two companies will invest more than $50 million in the project, and the combined facilities will cover more than 168,000 sq ft. Groundbreaking is scheduled for later this year, with the opening expected by the first quarter of 2020. The expansion will replace the smaller facility Gulfstream now operates at PBI and create some 50 jobs, doubling Gulfstream’s workforce at the location.

 


Gulfstream has recently announced a 50,000-sq-ft&nbsp;expansion of its Van Nuys, California maintenance facility, co-branded with Jet Aviation, set to open in early next year. Meanwhile, its Appleton, Wisconsin completion and service facility is in the midst of a 200,000-sq-ft&nbsp;upgrade scheduled to come online in the second quarter of&nbsp;2019.&nbsp;Another 200,000 sq&nbsp;ft&nbsp;of service space is being added to Gulfstream’s Savannah, Georgia headquarters, allowing the site to service 100 airplanes at a time, and bringing the company’s total footprint at the site to almost one million square feet.&nbsp;

 


Gulfstream is also building a 200,000-sq-ft&nbsp;facility at Farnborough Airport in the UK, capable of servicing 20 aircraft at a time, to support European, Middle Eastern, and African customers.

 


The new New York City office in Manhattan&nbsp;features digital tools, including a 20-foot “power wall” that can display cabin layout and other configuration options. In addition to regional clients, the center&nbsp;“can handle customers from around the world who happen to be in New York,” where they can be met by their local representative to help with the interior design process, said Gulfstream senior v-p of worldwide sales Scott Neal.

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