General Aviation & Airport Liability Insurance
Liability coverage for airport operations, aviation services, and the aircraft — owned, scheduled, or non-owned — that use them.
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Running an airport, an FBO, a flight school, or an aviation-services business carries a distinct set of liability exposures a standard commercial liability policy isn't built for. General Aviation & Airport Liability Insurance covers premises liability across the field, liability tied to the aircraft you own or schedule, non-owned aircraft use, hangarkeepers exposure for aircraft in your care, and the aviation services — flight instruction, maintenance, avionics, fueling, deicing, ground handling — your business actually performs.
Who This Is Really For
The ideal buyer.
The ideal buyer is an FBO, flight school, or aviation-services business that is either opening a new service line — adding maintenance or avionics work to a fueling operation, or taking on hangar storage for outside clients — or discovering during a client or lease negotiation that its standard commercial general liability policy carries an aviation exclusion that leaves the core of its business unaddressed. The trigger is frequently a hangar lease or a maintenance contract that requires proof of hangarkeepers or aviation-products liability before the business can sign, because a counterparty's insurer or attorney has already flagged that a generic CGL policy doesn't reach aircraft-specific exposure. This buyer typically already has a defined list of the services it actually performs — instruction, fueling, deicing, ground handling — because that list is exactly what needs to be named for the professional-services carve-back to apply. What makes this the right fit over a standard business liability policy is that aviation liability, hangarkeepers exposure, and non-owned aircraft use are specific, named coverage parts here rather than blanket exclusions the way they'd be treated elsewhere.
- An airport or fixed-base operator responsible for premises liability across the field
- A flight school or instructor providing flight instruction under its own liability exposure
- An aircraft maintenance, avionics, or fueling operation performing aviation services on other people's aircraft
- A business that operates scheduled aircraft and also needs coverage for employees flying non-owned aircraft on company business
- A hangar operator responsible for aircraft in its care, custody, or control
- A ground handling or deicing operation working aircraft it doesn't own
What It Covers
Coverage, broken down.
Airport & Premises Liability
Covers bodily injury and property damage claims arising from operations on airport premises.
Aircraft Liability — Owned, Scheduled & Non-Owned
Covers liability tied to aircraft you own and schedule on the policy, plus liability when your business's aircraft use extends to a non-owned aircraft.
Hangarkeepers Liability
Covers damage to an aircraft that isn't yours while it's in your care, custody, or control — for example, in your hangar for storage or work.
Aviation Products & Professional Services
Covers liability from aviation products you provide and from aviation services like flight instruction, maintenance, avionics work, fueling, deicing, and ground handling.
Illustrative Scenario — How This Coverage Responds
Illustrative scenario — a hangar mishap
A hangar tenant's aircraft is damaged when it's moved by the FBO's ground crew during a routine repositioning inside the hangar. The FBO's hangarkeepers liability coverage responds to the damage claim, addressing the loss instead of it landing entirely on the FBO's operating budget.
Illustrative example for education only — not a claim outcome or a promise of payment. Every claim depends on the actual policy issued and its terms.
More Than One Way In
More scenarios.
Real coverage doesn't fit one story. Here's who else this shows up for.
The flight school adding a maintenance shop
A flight school that has only ever provided instruction decides to add an in-house maintenance and avionics shop to serve its own fleet and outside owners. Before the shop opens, the business confirms maintenance and avionics work are named on its policy's aviation-services carve-back, alongside its existing instruction coverage.
The FBO expanding into ground handling
A fixed-base operator that has historically only handled fueling starts contracting with a regional airline for ground handling and deicing services during winter months. The business reviews its aviation-services coverage to make sure those specific services are listed before the contract starts.
The hangar operator taking on outside storage clients
A hangar owner who previously only stored its own aircraft begins renting hangar space to outside owners for the first time. Because those aircraft are now in the operator's care, custody, or control, hangarkeepers liability becomes a real, active exposure rather than a theoretical one.
Know The Gaps
What this doesn't cover.
Every policy has limits. Knowing them before you buy is how you avoid a denied claim later.
Professional-services claims outside the aviation services carve-back
The general professional-services exclusion is carved back specifically for named aviation services — instruction, maintenance, avionics, fueling, deicing, ground handling. A service outside that list isn't automatically covered.
Workers' compensation and employer's liability
Injuries to your own employees run through a workers' comp policy, not this one.
Fraud or other intentional acts
This covers accidental liability exposure, not a deliberate act.
Abuse or molestation claims
Standard commercial liability carve-out — ask about a dedicated policy if this is a real exposure for your operation, such as a flight camp for minors.
Asbestos and lead exposure
Excluded like most commercial liability forms — older hangar or airport facilities with this exposure should ask about it directly.
Contractual liability assumed beyond what the law would already hold you to
Signing a contract that hands you extra liability beyond ordinary legal responsibility can create a gap this policy won't fill.
Employment-related practices claims
Hiring, firing, and workplace-conduct disputes need employment practices liability coverage, not this policy.
Behind The Quote
What goes into the decision.
What actually moves your price and your approval — no black box.
The specific list of aviation services actually performed
Because the professional-services carve-back is scoped to named services — instruction, maintenance, avionics, fueling, deicing, ground handling — underwriting needs a precise, current list; a service you add later needs to be added to the policy too, not assumed to be included.
Owned, scheduled, and non-owned aircraft mix
A business that only operates its own fleet has a different exposure profile than one whose employees also fly non-owned aircraft on company business, and both are priced and scheduled differently.
Hangarkeepers exposure — number and value of aircraft in your care
The more outside aircraft your hangar stores or your shop works on, the more this specific coverage part matters, since it responds to damage to aircraft you don't own but are responsible for.
Scope of airport premises operations
The size and nature of your premises operations — a small FBO versus a full-service airport with multiple tenants — shapes the premises liability exposure underwriting is pricing.
Claims history
A hangar mishap, ground-handling incident, or prior aviation liability claim is weighed heavily given how specialized and often high-value aviation losses can be.
Getting Covered
How it actually works.
- Tell VAB about every operation on your policy — premises, owned or scheduled aircraft, and the aviation services you actually perform.
- Non-owned aircraft use and hangarkeepers exposure get added where they apply to your operation.
- A liability claim triggers the relevant coverage part based on what area of your operation it ties back to.
- Review your schedule annually as your fleet or service list changes.
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Availability
Available nationwide, written to match your airport operations, aviation services, and the aircraft you own, schedule, or otherwise use.
Questions, answered straight
No jargon on general aviation & airport liability insurance — just what you're actually asking.
Yes — non-owned aircraft liability and hangarkeepers liability both extend to aircraft you don't own but are exposed to through your operations.
Owned and scheduled aircraft are the ones you actually list on the policy. Non-owned aircraft coverage responds when your business's use extends to an aircraft you don't own — for example, an employee flying one on company business.
Yes — flight instruction is specifically carved back into the aviation-services coverage, along with maintenance, avionics, fueling, deicing, and ground handling.
Coverage follows your listed operations and aircraft use, not just the physical airport property — talk to a VAB advisor about how your specific operation is scoped.
Yes — workers' compensation and employer's liability are excluded here and need their own dedicated policy.
Fueling, marshaling, baggage and cargo handling, deicing, and similar tarmac-side services performed on aircraft.
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Insurance products described on this page are marketed by The Veteran Alliance, a licensed insurance producer, and underwritten by one or more separately licensed insurance companies, which may include Corgi Insurance Company and its affiliates. The insurer that actually underwrites your policy, its licensing status in your state, and any state-required notices will be identified in your quote and policy documents. Coverage, limits, eligibility, and pricing are determined by the underwriting insurer, may vary by state, and may change. Nothing on this page is a quote, an offer of insurance, a binder, or a guarantee of coverage — coverage takes effect only when a policy is issued.