Corning flies to Raleigh-Durham the week of its optical connectivity factory announcement

Corning landed a Bombardier Challenger 850 (N28CG) at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on June 4, 2026, after a 29-minute flight from Stag Air Park in North Carolina. The aircraft had flown from Elmira-Corning Regional to the Charlotte area earlier the same day, per flight logs.

The brief trip comes the same week Corning and NVIDIA announced a multiyear partnership to build three advanced manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas, as detailed in a May 6 joint press release [corning.com](https://www.corning.com). The plants aim to increase Corning's U.S. optical connectivity capacity tenfold, with sources indicating sites near Corning's existing Hickory fiber-optic cable plant [cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com). The Raleigh-Durham shuttle likely ferried personnel coordinating site visits or supplier meetings tied to the expansion.

Corning's flight department operates seven aircraft as a self-dispatch shuttle system, per a profile by the National Business Aviation Association [nbaa.org](https://nbaa.org). The Challenger 850s regularly run routes from headquarters in Elmira to North Carolina hubs including Charlotte and Raleigh, moving employees to and from the company's sprawling optical-fiber production lines.