With its distinctive Comlux Angel flag flying in the U.S., Malta, Aruba, San Marino, and Kazakhstan, and at its Zurich, Switzerland headquarters, Comlux the Aviation Group’s global leadership—“the 10 fingers,” as chairman and CEO Richard Gaona calls the tight-knit executive team—is rarely together in one place. But in late March the division leaders stood on the tarmac at Comlux Completion in Indianapolis watching a VIP Airbus A330, freshly outfitted with a Comlux custom luxury interior, taxi out for its first certification test flight.

For the VIP airline operator and services provider, the completion represents several milestones: for one thing, it’s the company’s first wide-body project, and it elevates Comlux to a new tier in the VIP airliner world. As Gaona noted, “The number of centers that can perform a widebody completion is extremely limited.”