Troubled private flight business CEO remains optimistic about turnaround

The new CEO of Sarasota-based beleaguered private air service company AeroVanti says there’s “light at the end of the tunnel” with a $40,000 hangar lease extended and plane inspections and maintenance going well. 

But multiple issues with the company linger. 

In late August, president and CEO Scott Hopes received a large box of mail from the company’s closed office in Annapolis, Maryland. (The company had a dual headquarters in Annapolis and Sarasota when it was founded in 2021.) Hopes, in a Sept. 6 AeroVanti private Facebook group post, says it was more than a month’s worth of packages and mail, including time sensitive legal notices.