Signature Completes VNY North Acquisition at Airport Logging 1,235 Business-Jet Movements; Hangar and Contract Details Undisclosed

Signature Aviation completed its acquisition of the former Castle & Cooke Aviation Services LLC facility at Van Nuys Airport on September 15, 2026, renaming the site VNY North. The deal gives Signature three operating locations at Van Nuys Airport.

Business-jet flight-activity records show KVNY logged 598 departures and 637 arrivals between September 11 and September 17, 2026, a combined 1,235 movements during the week the acquisition closed. The figures are reported as a single interval aggregate with no daily breakdown, measured on an airport-dimension basis in which each departure and each arrival counts as one movement, and are not directly comparable with operator-dimension flight totals. The data cut-off date is September 18, 2026.

Signature's official announcement said the facility would be added to its global network and would expand its Van Nuys service capacity. No disclosure has been made regarding hangar reallocation, fuel-supply changes, or migration of existing customer contracts. Industry reporting from September 16, 2026 confirmed the three-location footprint but likewise contained no detail on those integration measures.

This is a case of network footprint expanding through acquisition rather than through new construction, a common route for FBO groups to add capacity at slot- and space-constrained airports like Van Nuys. Consolidating three locations under one operator at a single airport concentrates ground-handling, fueling and hangar decisions with one company, which can streamline service for customers already in that network but also concentrates counterparty risk for tenants and contract holders who previously dealt with an independent operator.

How the segment actually functions here is visible in what stays undisclosed: hangar reallocation, fuel-supply arrangements and the fate of existing customer contracts are exactly the operational levers that determine whether an acquisition adds real capacity or simply relabels existing throughput. Movement counts at the airport level, like the 1,235 recorded for the week of closing, describe overall traffic at KVNY rather than activity specific to the newly acquired facility, so they cannot on their own confirm whether Signature's expanded footprint is translating into additional volume.

What settles this next is whichever party discloses the integration terms first — Signature on hangar and contract migration, or Castle & Cooke's former customers on whether their service arrangements carried over unchanged.