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Corporate Flight Management

Aviation services company in the United States

Corporate Flight Management, Inc., doing business as Contour Aviation, is an aviation services company based in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States. It started operations in 1982 as an on-demand charter service for passengers and freight in the southern United States, as well as a full-service Federal Aviation Administration certificated repair station and a fixed-base operator. Contour maintains its corporate office at the Smyrna Airport.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • HeadquartersSmyrna1
  • Websitewww.flycfm.com
  • Legal formFor-Profit Corporation3
  • LEI254900JUTU8INGUONW393
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressC/O KELLY GINN, 37167 Smyrna, United States3
  • Registered withBusiness Services (Department of State), 0001187063

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Corporate Flight Management, Inc., doing business as Contour Aviation, is an aviation services company based in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States. It started operations in 1982 as an on-demand charter service for passengers and freight in the southern United States, as well as a full-service Federal Aviation Administration certificated repair station and a fixed-base operator. Contour maintains its corporate office at the Smyrna Airport. It currently operates charter flights, provides aircraft management, sales, government services, and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services.2

Products and brands

As of December 2025, Contour Aviation fleet includes the following aircraft:

From Wikipedia’s article on Contour Aviation, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Jul 26, 1982Founded Corporate Flight Management is founded3

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$231.6M 2010–2026
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2010–2026: $231.6M in all. PPP loans $4.2M; Other federal assistance $220.9M; Federal contracts $6.5M.$0$20M$40M$60M$80M2010 · Federal contracts: $393.6K20102011 · Federal contracts: $79.0K20122013 · Federal contracts: $19.3K2014 · Federal contracts: $15.5K20142015 · Other federal assistance: $2.9M2015 · Federal contracts: $3.5M2016 · Other federal assistance: $2.6M2016 · Federal contracts: $144.4K20162017 · Other federal assistance: $2.9M2017 · Federal contracts: $546.4K2018 · Other federal assistance: $1.7M2018 · Federal contracts: $1.1M20182019 · Federal contracts: $122.5K2020 · PPP loans: $4.2M2020 · Other federal assistance: $7.2M2020 · Federal contracts: $286.1K20202021 · Other federal assistance: $4.0M2021 · Federal contracts: $251.9K2022 · Other federal assistance: $4.1M20222023 · Other federal assistance: $41.6M2024 · Other federal assistance: $45.4M20242025 · Other federal assistance: $66.8M2026 · Other federal assistance: $41.7M2026
Figures by year
YearPPP loansOther federal assistanceFederal contractsTotal
2026–$41.7M–$41.7M
2025–$66.8M–$66.8M
2024–$45.4M–$45.4M
2023–$41.6M–$41.6M
2022–$4.1M–$4.1M
2021–$4.0M$251.9K$4.3M
2020$4.2M$7.2M$286.1K$11.7M
2019––$122.5K$122.5K
2018–$1.7M$1.1M$2.7M
2017–$2.9M$546.4K$3.4M
2016–$2.6M$144.4K$2.8M
2015–$2.9M$3.5M$6.5M
2014––$15.5K$15.5K
2013––$19.3K$19.3K
2011––$79.0K$79.0K
2010––$393.6K$393.6K

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov5, by calendar year, 2010–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest direct payments

  1. Apr 5, 2016$7.2M from Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation: Payments For Essential Air Services6 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award 395
  2. Jul 1, 2025$6.9M from Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation: Payments For Essential Air Services7 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award 69A3452660576
  3. $6.9M from Departmental Offices: Coronavirus Relief - Pandemic Relief For Aviation Workers8 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award ACWS0042

Largest contracts

  1. Apr 1, 2015$3.5M from Defense Logistics Agency: Jet a w/fsii9 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award B001
  2. Mar 18, 2010$183.7K from USTRANSCOM: Htc711-10-d-r015 domestic airlift ft campbell10 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award 0001
  3. Dec 9, 2020$183.3K from USTRANSCOM: Igf:ot:igf chartered passenger airlift between bedford massachusetts and leesburg virginia and ketchikan alaska - air transportation service11 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award HTC71121F1632
  4. Apr 8, 2021$172.0K from USTRANSCOM: Igf:ot:igf chartered passenger airlift between bedford massachusetts and leesburg virginia and ketchikan alaska - air transportation service12 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award HTC71121F2394
  5. Apr 1, 2011$158.9K from USTRANSCOM: Dedicated air charter services for a minimum of six passengers form ft campbell ky13 To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, INC. Award 0002

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA14. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 4, 2020$4.2M PPP loan (first draw) from Renasant Bank14To CORPORATE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT, Smyrna TN; $4.3M forgiven Jun 11, 2021

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

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