About Us

Finding solutions for your challenges

Finding solutions for your challenges

Since 1959, Universal® has seen clients face incredible challenges, and delivered the solutions they need to prevail. To do this, we leverage what makes us unique: providing the complete global resources you need, all coordinated and executed by our team members around the world.

With a broad array of services and capabilities, Universal can help you overcome the unexpected – and the everyday challenges you face.

  • Knowledge, experience, and resources that come from more than 50 years in business, in which we've facilitated more than two million global trip legs
  • Voted #1 in the Professional Pilot PRASE survey 17 times, including #1 in International Trip Planning from 2003-2009
  • Universal Aviation ground support at 37 locations in over 20 countries – voted Best Handling Service two years in a row in the Professional Pilot PRASE survey
  • Universal Aviation – first ground handler to complete the NATA Safety 1st® Certified Professional Line Service Training in Asia, Latin America, and Europe
  • Buying power of a trustworthy network of thousands of proven suppliers around the world
  • Consistently one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in Houston as ranked by the Houston Business Journal
  • Operators of a business aircraft and flight department, giving us an owner's perspective, as well as an opportunity to test product and service enhancements

Customer stories

We've gathered examples of our clients' success stories and ways we've helped them overcome the unexpected.

Click here to read them.

NATA Safety 1st is a registered trademark of the National Air Transportation Association.

 

Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc.

Address:
8787 Tallyho Road
Houston, Texas 77061-3420
N. America Toll-Free:
(800) 231-5600 ext. 3300
Worldwide:
(713) 944-1622 ext. 3300
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Founder

Tom Evans founded Universal in 1959 to provide weather briefs for corporate aviation, making Universal the first company dedicated to supporting business and private flight operations.