Corning flies to North Carolina the week of its Amazon and NVIDIA manufacturing expansions

Corning flew from Hi Line Lodge Airport in Pennsylvania to Hawk's Knoll Airport in North Carolina on June 19, a 1-hour 12-minute hop aboard Falcon 900 N38CG. The private airstrip sits about 20 miles from Corning's existing optical-fiber facilities in Hickory, a hub the company has served for decades.

The trip lands the same week Corning is executing on a string of multibillion-dollar agreements with Amazon, NVIDIA, and Meta to expand U.S. optical connectivity capacity. The Amazon deal, announced this month, will create 1,000 new manufacturing jobs in North Carolina, per a joint release [optica-opn.org](https://www.optica-opn.org/Home/Industry/2026/June/Corning_and_Amazon_Strike_Multibillion-Dollar_Deal). The NVIDIA partnership, announced in May, calls for three new advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas, as covered by Corning's own newsroom [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 follows a pattern of recent Corning shuttles between upstate New York and the Carolinas. Over the past two days, company aircraft have made multiple trips to Charlotte and the Hickory area, consistent with overseeing a manufacturing ramp that Corning's CFO recently described as expected to continue "as data centers continue to get built out" [lightreading.com](https://www.lightreading.com/data-centers/amazon-corning-fiber-deal-keys-on-density-scaled-customization-for-data-centers).