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Tal Keinan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sky Harbour Group Corporation

Search every verified Tal Keinan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a July 2026 interview on the Wide Moat Show, Tal Keinan, Chairman and CEO of Sky Harbour, discussed the company's positioning and strategy. Keinan described Sky Harbour as offering a distinct service package for "home-based operators," a concept the company coined and is working to have introduced into FAA regulations, differentiating it from traditional FBOs. He also noted that the company has reduced its hard construction costs to approximately $242 per square foot, down from over $300 per square foot two years prior, while aiming to maintain or enhance quality. Keinan expressed confidence in the long-term value of the company's real estate assets, stating that he believes inflation on airports has been underestimated and that these assets will become increasingly valuable over time. He indicated that Sky Harbour's focus remains on the U.S. market for the next five years, with potential for growth beyond its current 10 million square foot target.

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“I think 10 years from now, we're going to look back and say we underestimated inflation on airports. I really think that. As long as rule of law's in place and title holds, real estate is not one of those highly disruptable industries. So, these assets are going to become increasingly valuable over time.”

“We're currently tracking at about $242 per square foot hard costs. That's down from over $300 per square foot 2 years ago. And I think there's still a ways to go. There's still a lot of things we can do while preserving the quality of the offering, maybe even enhancing the quality of the offering, and still getting our cost per square foot down.”

“If you're building at $300 a foot and you're making NOI in the $40 a foot range, you're levering that at approximately 70% loan to value, you're talking about equity returns deep into the 30s. So that's a three-year or less payback from the day it opens.”

“The binary entry ticket is can you get the land or not. Luckily we started a long time ago but this has been a much longer gestation period on average than we expected.”

“We look at capital formation as on an as-needed basis. Don't dilute when you don't need to dilute, but before needed. So we try never to navigate ourselves into a corner where we absolutely need financing, and so it's always a little bit before, but that's a balance that we're always going to be trying to strike.”

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