Corning Falcon 900 lands in North Carolina the week of its NVIDIA AI partnership

Corning flew a Falcon 900 (tail N38CG) from Morristown Municipal Airport to Dodge/Coppola/Wheeler Airport in Concord, North Carolina, on the evening of May 12, 2026 — a 42-minute hop that arrived just after 6 p.m. local time.

The same week, Corning and NVIDIA announced a multiyear partnership to dramatically expand U.S.-based manufacturing of optical connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure, per a joint press release on May 6. The deal calls for Corning to build three new plants in North Carolina and Texas, create more than 3,000 jobs, and increase its U.S. optical connectivity capacity tenfold. Concord sits in the Charlotte metro area, a likely hub for the planned manufacturing expansion.

The flight is the latest in a pattern: over the past two days, Corning aircraft have shuttled repeatedly between its Elmira-Corning headquarters and Charlotte-area airports, with at least four round trips recorded since May 11. The company’s seven-aircraft fleet is clearly busy supporting the logistics of what CEO Wendell Weeks called, per the release, “a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate American manufacturing.”