Signature Aviation acquires Castle & Cooke at Van Nuys Airport
Signature Aviation has completed the acquisition of Castle & Cooke Aviation Services LLC at Van Nuys Airport (VNY) in Los Angeles, adding a second fixed-base operator (FBO) terminal at one of the busiest general aviation airports in the United States. The transaction closed on 15 September 2026, with the site now operating as VNY North within Signature's global network.
No financial terms were disclosed. The release did not include a purchase price, revenue figures for the acquired operation, or detail on any facilities investment planned at the site.
Market context
Van Nuys Airport handles a high volume of private and business aviation traffic serving the broader Los Angeles region. For an FBO network operator, securing a second terminal at a constrained, high-demand airport confers competitive advantages in ramp space, hangar capacity and fuel throughput. Signature describes itself as the world's largest distributor of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in business aviation, and expanding its footprint at high-traffic nodes is consistent with a strategy of growing SAF distribution volume alongside general capacity.
The broader FBO consolidation trend has been driven by private-equity capital over the past decade. Large networks such as Signature and its rivals have steadily acquired independent operators at key business-aviation gateways, compressing the pool of independent single-site FBOs. The dynamic mirrors infrastructure-fund consolidation in other ground-transport sectors.
SAF relevance is limited here
Signature's SAF distributor status is the primary point of Cleantech relevance. The company's boilerplate cites SAF distribution as a core capability, and FBO footprint expansions at major airports in theory extend the physical infrastructure through which SAF reaches aircraft. However, this release contains no SAF volume data, no new offtake agreement, no contracted SAF price, and no deployment milestone. The acquisition is framed entirely around general business-aviation capacity and hospitality.
The release also mentions that Signature operates more than 16 million square feet of carbon-neutral office and hangar real estate globally, though no methodology, certification standard or auditor is cited for that claim.
Until Signature publishes SAF throughput data or a supply agreement tied to the Van Nuys expansion, this transaction is primarily an FBO consolidation story rather than a clean-technology event. Readers allocating capital into SAF infrastructure or low-carbon aviation will find limited actionable detail here.