Thunderbird Aviation INC
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator TBDA, overseen by the FAA office coded GL15. 1 aircraft is listed on the certificate, mostly BE-90-C90. Based in Littleton, Colorado, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: thunderbirdaviation.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Thunderbird Aviation INC from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Thunderbird Aviation is a full-service aviation provider operating from two locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since 1962. It offers FBO services, aircraft maintenance and management, flight training, scenic and discovery flights, charter operations, aircraft sales, and fuel services.
- Calls itself
- Thunderbird Aviation
- What it is
- Other
- Bases
- Eden Prairie, MN FLYING CLOUD AIRPORT; Crystal, MN CRYSTAL AIRPORT
- Services
- charter, flight training, scenic flights, discovery flights, FBO services, aircraft maintenance, aircraft management, aircraft sales, fuel, catering, car rental, lodging
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 135, TBDA360I
- Founded
- 1962
- Address
- 14091 Pioneer Trail, Eden Prairie, MN, 55347
- Telephone
- 952.941.1212
Written by the site from the pages of thunderbirdaviation.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate and aircraft the company owns. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 2 parked (last heard on the ground within 7 days), 4 not heard lately, 6 not heard since the site began listening.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Hiring 5 openings on Thunderbird Aviation INC's own website
- A&P Mechanics · Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- A&P Apprentice Mechanics · Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Flight Instructors (CFI, CFII, MEI) · Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Line Service Technicians · Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Customer Service Representative · Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Read from the employer's site; applications go there. Every aviation opening.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C90 King Air C90 1 on the certificate
- Beech 1 on the certificate
- Littleton, CO · where it registers its own aircraft
- Colorado 7,485 aircraft registered
- Thunderbird Aviation LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 1 aircraft listed · designator TBDA
- N332DE · Beech C90
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/thunderbird-aviation-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 1 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
BE-90-C90 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N332DE | Beech C90 | Metro Aircraft CO Bloomington, MN | 1975 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
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