Corning flies home from West Virginia the week of its Amazon and NVIDIA deals

Corning flew from Grant County Airport in West Virginia to its home base at Elmira-Corning Regional Airport on June 9, 2026, a 54-minute hop aboard Challenger 850 N28CG.

The same week, Amazon announced a multibillion-dollar agreement with Corning to supply optical fiber for data centers, creating 1,000 jobs in North Carolina, per a June 8 Reuters report. That deal follows a May 6 partnership with NVIDIA to build three new U.S. manufacturing plants and expand optical connectivity capacity tenfold, as detailed in a joint press release on corning.com.

The West Virginia departure appears to be a return leg: over the past two days, Corning aircraft have shuttled between Elmira and the Charlotte area multiple times, where the company’s expanding fiber-optic footprint in the Carolinas is centered. The Grant County stop may have been a brief layover or a separate business call before heading back to headquarters.