The Airborne Internet Consortium (AIC) was a working group of small companies that formed a non-profit corporation in 2004 to foster research and development and advocacy of IP networked enabled communications for aviation.

[4] A working team within the NASA SATS program was formed to compile the initial definitions and concepts for an Airborne Internet.

[6] The members of the Airborne Internet Collaboration Group held a series of meetings in late 2003 and early 2004 to establish a charter.

The organization was led by William McNary of Aerosat LLC as President, and had co-Executive Directors: Paul A. Masson (StarNet, LLC), a professional in multi-party, R&D alliances responsible for overall management-administration, and James K. Meer (Microflight), a professional in aviation, information systems and digital communications responsible for funding and membership development.

[13] The technology roadmap was used as a reference input by CISCO corporation during an evaluation of the feasibility and value of forming an aviation internet air cargo alliance in 2013.