The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) continues to build on its membership base with the addition of two more service companies and another two in the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sector, bringing its total upwards of 115.

Joining the firm as full members are Mustang Aviation and Seattle Aviation Solutions, while the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (Nuair) and Texas UASWerx have signed on to the Electric Propulsion and Innovation Committee (EPIC) as associate members.

Founded in 1990, Pierre, South Dakota-based Mustang Aviation offers FBO, charter, maintenance, and repair services, along with flight instruction and cargo support. Redmond, Washington-based supplier Seattle Aviation Services, founded in 2017, provides parts and materials spanning from nose to tail of business jets, including airframe, engines, landing gear, auxiliary power units, and avionics. Seattle Aviation Services further distributes and manages parts and provides repair and overhaul services.

The new members further entrench GAMA’s service provider category as the single largest segment within the membership ranks, marking the success of an expanding reach that has occurred over the past decade.

Meanwhile, the associate membership EPIC category also continues to grow as GAMA furthers its reach into new technologies and concepts such as eVTOLs and drones.

New to the EPIC category is Nuair, which manages one of the seven FAA-designated UAS test sites (in Rome, New York). In this capacity, Nuair is responsible for the development of operations at the New York Advanced Air Mobility Proving Grounds and in a 50-mile UAS corridor.

Texas UASWerx is a not-for-profit aeronautical and engineering firm based in Dallas that provides urban air mobility integration, systems engineering, and configuration management expertise to manufacturers, technology providers, and authorities. The firm operates the nation's only purpose-built, 5G-enabled eVTOL and UAM proving ground and flight test facility. This includes a subsonic boundary layer wind tunnel.