Hammond Air Center is a Shell-branded, full-service FBO in Hammond, Louisiana.
We pride ourselves on offering personalized service and high-end amenities at a reasonable price.
Hammond Air Center is founded and operated by professional pilots.
In our passenger lounge we have wireless internet, coffee, cappuccino, espresso, hot chocolate, water, sodas, ice, beer and hi-def satellite TV with movie channels.
Our pilot’s lounge has all that, too, plus a dartboard and Keg-orator (root beer, of course!)
Oh, and we have a sweet crew car, too.
About Hammond Air Center
It all started a couple of years ago during a routine flight from Telluride to Hammond. Paul Cutrer and myself were playing “Stump the monkey” with the Honeywell FMS in a Hawker 1000, when the conversation turned toward fuel prices, and how one of our clients was paying more for fuel in Hammond than anywhere else they regularly flew. We calculated how much fuel we were collectively burning in aircraft from Hammond under our operational control, and speculated that it was enough to support our own fueling operation.
…There seemed to be a number of people in the airplane fueling business that didn’t know a whole lot about airplanes…
Paul and I flew together a lot after that trip, and we always talked about FBOs. We discussed fuel quality, ramps, suppliers, and every imaginable aspect of customer service at length. There seemed to be a number of people in the airplane fueling business that didn’t know a whole lot about airplanes, and we were a couple of airplane experts who didn’t know much about fuel! We had a lot to learn, and drew from every resource we could, whenever we could.
We owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to the great folks at Yellowstone Jet Center in Bozeman, Montana, and Miracle Strip Aviation in Destin, Florida. They provided a tremendous amount of technical support and advice that helped to make Hammond Air Center possible. They didn’t do this for money, they did it because they are airplane people, and airplane people are cool!…keep reading >>