ExcelAire is an airline based at Long Island MacArthur Airport. It operates private flights around the world.
A brand new Embraer Legacy 600 was involved in a mid-air collision with Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, all onboard the Boeing 737 were killed, this caused the 2006–2007 Brazilian aviation crisis that started on the 26 September 2006: At the time it was Brazil's deadliest Aviation crash, surpassing VASP Flight 168 and surpassed by TAM Airlines Flight 3054 at Congonhas-São Paulo Airport on July the 17th 2007.