Global avionics service provider L2 Aviation unveiled its revamped facilities at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Wednesday.
L2 Aviation invested $12.2 million into remodeling an office building and hangar space located on Comair Boulevard. The plan was to transform the buildings into high-tech avionics production and manufacturing facilities.
The revamp is expected to create approximately 250 jobs, for which L2 is now hiring. The services offered at the facilities include engineering, certification, installation, fleet modernization and manufacturing. In addition, company officials expect the facility will increase production capacity and operational efficiency.
On Wednesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was in attendance at a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside L2’s CVG facilities to commemorate its opening.
“Today is real big, because this company is helping to build our aviation and aerospace sector that many might not know, but it’s the number one export that comes out of Kentucky,” Beshear said. “We see tremendous growth in it in the last couple of years.”
L2 was founded in 1997 by entrepreneur Mark Lebovitz in Austin, Texas. The company specializes in complex avionics systems that help reduce downtime, mitigate crew workloads, and maintain fleet airworthiness. Lebovitz said L2 has done business in the Cincinnati area for a long time.
“The Ohio Valley was a key part of our story: Dayton, Wilmington and CVG,” he said. “We did a tremendous amount of remote modification work from our base in Austin, Texas – we would fly up here. We had the part heads. We did everything we needed to do here.”
Over the past decade, CVG officials have led efforts to expand their logistics and cargo operations, overseeing the expansion of DHL’s North American Superhub and landing Amazon Air’s principal hub. CVG has recruited several complementary businesses, such as those focused on aircraft maintenance, avionics and aviation education, to bolster its growth as a cargo hub.
Newly appointed CVG CEO Larry Krauter said the airport and L2 have aligned values. Krauter heralded the company as an innovative addition to the CVG ecosystem.
“I am pleased that CVG was able to provide the infrastructure and the space that we’re in today to allow L2 to move quickly,” he said. “I think that the mandate that we have from our leaders in this community, from our board, on how we are driven each day and in service to our customers, like L2, is we find that we have very aligned values.”
According to a CVG press release, the facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2025.