ExcelAire

ExcelAire, LLC is a United States air charter company based at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, New York.

ExcelAire is a division of Hawthorne Global Aviation Services[4] and its headquarters is housed in 200,000 square feet of hangar space at MacArthur Airport.

As of April 2022, ExcelAire had 7 Aircraft[5] On September 29, 2006, a Embraer Legacy 600 on a delivery flight by ExcelAire and piloted by Jean Paul Paladino and Joseph Lepore was involved in a mid-air collision with Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907.

All 154 people on board the Gol Boeing 737 were killed, but everyone on the Legacy jet survived.

After investigation by NTSB and CENIPA, it was found that the pilots Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino had turned the TCAS off, allowing the two aircraft to get on a collision course that caused the crash.