General Aviation

General Aviation is rebuilding the air traffic control (ATC) system from the ground up to handle the ever-growing number of commercial and private aircraft, plus new users like drones and rockets.

The U.S. air traffic control system is decades old — built on radar and radio technology from the post-WWII era — and is bursting at the seams. Traffic has doubled and tripled since the system was designed, safety incidents persist, taxpayers spend $15-20 billion annually maintaining decrepit equipment, and there aren't enough controllers to staff the system. General Aviation is introducing modern technology as a new vendor to the FAA, aiming to do for air traffic control what companies like Anduril have done for defense.

With an early team including Tesla and SpaceX alumni with deep aviation backgrounds, General Aviation is tackling one of the most critical and underinvested pieces of public infrastructure. The company believes better ATC will give us cheaper flights, safer skies, and wider access to aviation.

The culture is intensely in-person, hands-on, and fast-moving. This is a small team where every person makes a massive impact — working across hardware and software, from sensor packages and RF systems to real-time perception, automation, and controller-facing applications. The team values engineers who build things, sustain interest in hard problems, and push through bureaucratic sludge to ship real products into the world.