Corning lands in North Carolina the week of its NVIDIA factory announcement

Corning flew from Lake Ridge Aero Park Airport in North Carolina to a private airstrip near Elmira, New York, on June 4, 2026, a 1-hour 16-minute hop aboard Bombardier Challenger 850 N28CG. The flight arrived at 4:32 p.m. local time after cruising at 29,000 feet.

The same week, Corning and NVIDIA announced a multiyear partnership to build three new advanced manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas, per a joint press release on May 6, 2026 [corning.com](https://www.corning.com). The plants will increase Corning’s U.S. optical connectivity capacity tenfold and create more than 3,000 jobs, with North Carolina sites likely near Corning’s existing Hickory fiber-optic cable plant, as CNBC reported [cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com). The Charlotte-area trip follows a pattern of frequent Corning flights to the region. Over the past three days, N28CG and other Corning aircraft have shuttled between Elmira and Charlotte multiple times, including a May 14 round trip, per Celebplanes flight logs [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/celebrity/corning-inc). The destination is a logical base for overseeing the company’s expanding manufacturing footprint in the Carolinas, where Corning already operates major optical-fiber production lines.