Starfighters operates the world's only commercial fleet of flight-ready F-104 supersonic aircraft, based primarily at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Midland International Air & Space Port in Texas. The company's core business today is selling flight services — pilot and astronaut training, and in-flight testing — to defense, civil, academic, and commercial aerospace clients. Starfighters holds a unique FAA authorization to operate in KSC's controlled airspace, making it the only civilian company permitted to do so, which provides a natural moat for certain training use cases. Its F-104 fleet also serves as an airborne testbed for supersonic and hypersonic research, captive carry payload testing, and space hardware qualification, given the aircraft's ability to sustain MACH 2 flight. Beyond its core historical services, Starfighters is developing StarLaunch, an air-launch rocket system that uses the F-104 as a reusable first stage to boost small payloads to sub-orbital trajectories and eventually low earth orbit. Starfighters is targeting a first commercial StarLaunch mission by end of 2026. The company is also pursuing hypersonic R&D contracts through the DoD's HyCAT initiative. Revenue is contract-driven and scales with missions flown, constrained by a fleet of seven aircraft. Starfighters runs with no full-time employees, using independent contractors for all operations including senior management, keeping fixed overhead low. The company is in an early, capital-intensive phase and is dependent on securing additional funding, fleet expansion, and FAA launch licensing to grow its new business lines.