A new major private aviation company has stepped into the scene in both the Conejo and San Fernando valleys: FlyHouse Management.

In late December, FlyHouse Management – which does business as just FlyHouse – completed its acquisition of Camarillo-based Sun Air Jets, giving it a major presence at both Camarillo and Van Nuys airports.

As a result of the deal, FlyHouse moved its headquarters from Scottsdale, Arizona to Camarillo Airport, effective Jan. 1.

Sun Air Jets had been a private jet operator for more than 20 years – primarily operating out of Camarillo and Van Nuys airports. Its own fleet was only about eight airplanes, though it could arrange flights for customers aboard hundreds of charter aircraft in a global network. SunAir also provided aircraft maintenance services and had hangar space at the two airports.

FlyHouse, meanwhile, started just five years ago, primarily as an online booking service with access to some 2,000-charter aircraft.

With the Sun Air Jets acquisition, FlyHouse has morphed into a full-service private aviation operator with an expanded aircraft fleet, an aircraft charter service, terminals – known in industry parlance as fixed-base operators or FBOs – at Camarillo and Van Nuys airports and an aircraft maintenance and repair division at both airports

“This deal cements FlyHouse as a global luxury brand,” says Jack Lambert, chief executive of FlyHouse Management. “Up until this deal, our big mainstay has been a booking services on an app on a phone or in Amazon’s marketplace … Now I have access to 2,300 airplanes that can generate multiple revenue streams, which has elevated our game.”

In terms of physical assets, Lambert says FlyHouse is now much more of a vertically integrated company. “We own the FBO, we own the hangar, we own the plane and we also own the fuel at one airport,” he says.

All of those, he says, have their own revenue streams. And it’s all combined with already extensive booking operations that were bolstered by a 2024 acquisition of JetASAP, an online platform showing real-time charter pricing. The JetASAP acquisition caught the attention of one private aviation industry expert.

“They are trying to build a marketplace that will allow consumers to book private jets instantly in the same way you book airline tickets,” says Doug Gollan, president and editor-in-chief of Private Jet Card Comparisons, which offers a buyers’ guide to private education services.

FlyHouse even has an in-house financial institution to help customers buy planes. In essence, FlyHouse has now become “a one-stop shop that has everything you need for a charter flight,” Lambert says.

Van Nuys, Camarillo landscape

FlyHouse is part of the business aviation industry that is distinct from commercial airlines that provide seats with scheduled service.  Business aviation includes corporate-owned jets, aircraft available for charter and aircraft with shared ownership. Aircraft range in size from piston-engine Cessnas to jets with 100 passenger seats.

According to the National Business Aviation Association, the Washington D.C.-based trade group representing the industry, commercial airlines use roughly 500 airports in the nationa. Business aviation reaches about 5,000.

At Van Nuys Airport, FlyHouse enters a crowded field of charter operators – some nine companies offering some aspect of charter services. The airport is one of the busiest private aviation fields in the country; according to aviation industry tracking research from Greenwood Village, Colorado-based ARGUS International, the airport ranked fifth in the nation in 2024.

Los Angeles World Airports – the city agency that owns and operates Van Nuys Airport – reported there were nearly 30,600 air taxi operations for all of 2025, down 11% from 2024.

The most direct competitor to FlyHouse at Van Nuys offering a full suite of services is Clay Lacy Aviation, one of the oldest charter operators at that airport, founded in 1968.Other companies offer either charter operations or amenities for charter aircraft. Hawthorne-based Surf Air Mobility, for example, has a major charter service hub at the airport.

At Camarillo Airport in Ventura County, there are about four companies offering services related to charter operations. Federal Aviation Administration statistics for Camarillo Airport do not include breakouts for air taxi takeoffs and landings.

Going after ‘aspirational market’

Like all charter operators, FlyHouse caters to well-heeled customers. But Lambert says it’s not just going after customers with incomes of at least seven figures.

“We’re trying to expand the market to high-income earners who are not really rich yet – what I call the ‘aspirational market,’” he says. “It’s all about putting an option before you that you didn’t know existed before. That’s what our full-service offerings aim to do.”

The Los Angeles-area market, he says, is a perfect place to go after this demographic.Lambert says this deal is only the beginning. Armed with a significant private equity investment of undisclosed amount in late 2024 from Benevolent Capital Partners, the company’s future plans include a two-track expansion. First is the acquisition market.

“We are looking to do more acquisitions,” he says. “This might include FBOs, other charter operators, charter brokers and the like.”

The second track is an international expansion. In the announcement of the deal completion, the company says it “positions FlyHouse for international expansion by standardizing maintenance, safety, and operational procedures to meet European certification requirements and cross-border regulatory compliance.”

Lambert says the company has already signed a deal to go into Brazil.

“Europe is next,” he says.