Avports was founded in 1927 as the infrastructure division of Pan American World Airways, making it one of the most experienced American-owned and based airport managers and operators in the United States of America. It now is wholly-owned by West Street Infrastructure Partners III, a family of infrastructure investment funds managed by the merchant banking arm of Goldman Sachs. The company has been a long-time supplier of O&M services to a number of smaller commercial and general aviation airports that are largely based in the northeast of the United States.