Defense

General Aviation

General Aviation modernizes U.S. air traffic control infrastructure with cutting-edge technology to safely manage commercial aircraft, private planes, drones, and rockets in shared airspace, making aviation safer and more accessible.

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Team size
1-10
Founded 2026
Total raised
$500k
Pre-seed · last round Jun '26

About General Aviation

General Aviation is modernizing the United States air traffic control system, which has relied on post-WWII era radar and radio technology, to safely manage commercial aircraft, private aircraft, drones, and rockets in shared airspace. The company is introducing cutting-edge technology as a new vendor to the FAA, working to make flights cheaper, skies safer, and aviation more accessible to a broader audience. Founded by a team of Tesla and SpaceX alumni with deep aviation expertise—including backgrounds in aviation software startups, aircraft mechanics, flight training, and engineering—General Aviation operates from Newlab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a focused engineering team. Through its mission to rebuild air traffic control infrastructure, the company aims to unlock the potential of modern aviation while addressing the critical limitations of legacy systems.

Culture & values

Culture is intensely in-person, hands-on, and fast-moving

Small team where every person makes a massive impact

Team values engineers who build things, sustain interest in hard problems, and push through bureaucratic sludge to ship real products

Team works in-person at Newlab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Culture is deeply technical, cross-disciplinary, and fast-iterating

Engineers work across the full stack with no rigid process or bureaucracy

Expectation is to show up, get hands dirty, and ship real things

Founding team has backgrounds spanning aviation software startups, aircraft mechanic school, flight training, and engineering at Tesla and SpaceX

Funding

$500ktotal raised

Jun '26
  • Jun 2026 · Pre-seed
    $500k

Company at a glance

Founded2026

The team at General Aviation

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Team Composition

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  • Entrepreneurship1

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