From serving as the Champaign Illinois airport’s general aviation terminal for all aircraft and their passengers to satisfying the specific aviation needs of individual clients, Flightstar is proud to be part of the aviation community.

Flightstar would like to welcome you to the world of private and business aviation.  Whether your aviation interest is just curiosity, aircraft ownership, or anything in-between, Flightstar looks forward to serving you.

Flightstar has been in business as the Fixed Base Operator at Champaign-Urbana’s Willard Airport (KCMI) since December of 1978 and is the only Fixed Base Operator to have ever operated at the airport.  Starting out with just a flight training operation, an airplane, three employees, and operating out of a construction trailer, Flightstar has grown into a well respected full-service FBO facility employing over 120 remarkable people.

Flightstar’s facilities encompass nearly half of the airport.  Its 10,000 square foot corporate terminal facility and 68,000 square foot maintenance facilities are state of the art and are easily on par and in many ways better than the finest facilities in the country.  Flightstar’s FBO operation can be subdivided into 1) line operations, 2) flight operations, and 3) maintenance and avionics operations.

Flightstar’s line operations encompass meeting, marshalling, and parking of transient and locally based aircraft, all fueling operations at the airport, towing and hangaring in Flightstar’s 6 hangars as well as the University of Illinois’ Institute of Aviation’s hangars, baggage handling, deicing, ground handling air carrier charters (such as football teams), in addition to providing all customer services.

Flightstar’s flight operations are divided into aircraft management and aircraft charter.  Flightstar currently manages one Falcon 10,  one Falcon 20F-5, one Falcon 50, one Learjet 40XR, three Learjet 45XR’s, two Challenger 300′s and one Global Express XRS.  Most of these aircraft are available for passenger charter flights.  In addition, a King Air 200 and two King Air C-90A’s are also available for charter.  There are three full time flight schedulers, a staff of twenty three full-time, FlightSafety trained, professional pilots and one cabin attendant.  Access to this level and quality of private aviation is unheard of for a community the size of Champaign-Urbana.

Flightstar’s maintenance and avionics operation is further subdivided into a general aviation division and an airline division.  The general aviation division handles all of the needs of our own managed aircraft as well as the maintenance needs of outside customers.  Our technicians are very experienced on all types of general aviation aircraft and they excel in the care of Global, Challenger, Learjet, Falcon and King Air aircraft.  Flightstar’s airline maintenance division is unique in FBO operations.  It provides in-depth, overnight maintenance on  Embraer Regional Jets each night 7-days a week, 365-days a year.   In addition to maintenance, Flightstar also performs programmed deep cleaning of those same air carrier aircraft.

Flightstar’s central Illinois corporate headquarters and F.B.O. facilities are located at Champaign’s Willard Airport in Savoy, Illinois. Office hours are 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.