XPA

Xpress One Aviation is a Tampa, Florida aviation company that began as a flight training school and grew into what it calls a multispecialty operation. It offers charter in a Piper Navajo Chieftain, a twin engine cabin class aircraft that seats up to around eight passengers.

Its charter service carries private and business travellers, including families and pets, with streamlined boarding, no security lines and departures on the client's schedule. Routes mentioned by customers include trips around Florida and to the Bahamas, Key West, Mississippi and Atlanta. The company says its pilots are highly qualified, mostly former airline pilots, and that each captain holds an airline transport pilot certificate.

Flight training is still a core service, with instrument, commercial, multi engine, airline transport and jet training. The company also sells, manages, exports and renovates aircraft, offers avionics work including full panel upgrades, and runs maintenance from routine inspections to paint and upholstery, led by certified mechanics.

The company says safety is its top priority and that it has hundreds of repeat customers. From Tampa, a Chieftain can reach the Keys, South Florida, the Panhandle and the northern Bahamas in a single hop.