Corning flies home from North Carolina the week of its Amazon fiber deal

Corning flew from Lake Ridge Aero Park Airport in North Carolina to Elmira-Corning Regional Airport on June 15, 2026, a one-hour-two-minute hop aboard Falcon 900 N38CG.

The same week, Corning and Amazon announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership to boost U.S. production of optical fiber and connectivity products for data centers, per a Reuters report on June 8 [marketscreener.com](https://www.marketscreener.com/news/amazon-corning-sign-multi-billion-dollar-deal-to-boost-fiber-optics-manufacturing-in-us-ce7f5dd3d98eff21). The deal will create 1,000 jobs at Corning's North Carolina facilities. It follows the company's May partnership with NVIDIA to build three new advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas, as announced on corning.com [corning.com](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2026/05/nvidia-and-corning-announce-long-term-partnership-to-strengthen-us-manufacturing-for-ai-infrastructure.html).

The flight originates near Corning's existing Hickory-area optical-fiber operations, where the company already runs eight factories. Recent flight logs show Corning aircraft shuttling repeatedly between Elmira and destinations in the Carolinas this week, consistent with the expanded manufacturing footprint the company is building to supply AI data center demand.