Permian Aerospace Development, LLC (PAD)
Permian Aerospace Development, LLC (PAD)
Midland, Texas · 31.997° N, 102.077° W · Hub of the Space Basin
Launching Permian Basin aviation, aerospace & space industries to the skies, space and beyond.
PAD · A joint venture platform · founded by Oscar S. Garcia & P. Lourcey Sams
Permian Aerospace Development, LLC — PAD — is your pathway to establish, grow, and operate aviation, aerospace, and space companies in one of the most strategically important emerging industry centers in the United States — the Permian Basin.
PAD serves as the economic, business, and financial development front door for companies entering the region: a single, coordinated platform to navigate and execute expansion with confidence.
We are a seasoned team of professionals, laser-focused on the Permian Basin and adjacent territories, delivering action-ready, fully integrated support from first contact to full operations.
We partner directly with entrants — sharing risk, relationships, and results. The joint ventures are the business.
Local, regional, national, and international intelligence and relationships.
Proven operators who deliver action and results, not just advice.
The Permian Basin is rapidly transforming into a prominent aerospace region — anchored by Midland, the hub of the Permian Basin aerospace industry and home of the Midland International Air & Space Port, the world's first co-located commercial airport and spaceport, backed by the Midland Development Corporation.
A new facility — slated to be the first orbital commercial inland vertical launch and reentry site in the Americas; a secure alternative to Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.
The Midland hub hosts a growing cluster for assembly, manufacturing, rocket motor test and R&D, altitude chambers, and much more — with AST SpaceMobile as a leading example, building high-tech satellites for global orbit.
"High Speed Corridors" linking the Permian Basin — with its Midland hub — to over 27 spaceports, making it the hyperconnected air and spaceport for high-altitude, high-speed R&D and T&E, with Starfighters Space as the anchor tenant. Complemented by the Midland–El Paso corridor integrating infrastructure, supply chains, and workforce across West Texas.
Multi-million dollar grants, expanding vertical launch licensing, and hundreds of new high-tech jobs shifting the Permian economy beyond oil and gas.
Oscar and Lourcey enter into joint ventures to effect aerospace industry development projects across three domains:
On the ground and in the airspace — launch, flight, and support infrastructure for the Basin's aerospace economy.
Aviation, aerospace, and space flight operations established and scaled in the region.
The supporting businesses, services, and facilities that make aerospace operations work.
Into every joint venture, PAD brings fully integrated, action-ready capabilities:
The right location, land, and facilities across the Basin and adjacent territories.
Entry strategy, roadmaps, and regulatory navigation built on deep regional intelligence.
Customers, partners, workforce programs, and government stakeholders.
Public incentives and private equity and debt investment, structured to accelerate each project.
Entity formation, joint venture structuring, and capitalization done right from day one.
Companies, investors, and institutions are invited to form joint ventures with PAD. Every venture follows a disciplined path — and every venture is structured on its own terms.
A confidential discussion of your objectives, technology, and timeline.
Joint venture formation — governance, economics, and capital plan, negotiated on the venture's own terms.
Site selection, government relations, permits, and regional partnerships.
Execution on the ground: facilities, workforce, operations, and growth.
The joint ventures are the business. Because PAD succeeds only where its ventures succeed, our incentives and our partners' incentives are one and the same.
The joint ventures are the business — and the first is underway.
OILR is PAD’s first joint venture: the development of a dedicated commercial orbital launch and reentry complex in Reeves County, West Texas — approximately 115 miles southwest of Midland, the hub of the Permian Basin aerospace industry.
The thesis is straightforward. Global launch demand is outrunning supply: the space economy is projected to grow from roughly $600 billion today to $1.8 trillion by 2035, with the launch market expanding from about $12 billion to more than $40 billion annually — driven by satellite constellations, national security payloads, space logistics, and hypersonic systems. America’s coastal launch sites are congested and costly. OILR answers with a capital-efficient inland alternative: more than 150,000 acres of low-population land, established high-speed aerospace corridors, large safety buffers, and direct proximity to the Midland Air & Space Port and its growing manufacturing cluster.
The complex is planned to support orbital launch pads, vehicle integration, propellant storage, mission control and telemetry, and logistics — with room to expand into rocket manufacturing, testing, and additional pads. OILR is also built for reentry: from reusable first stages through orbital capsules returning with payloads, the site supports all types of vehicle designs and architectures for reentry and landing. The site has already hosted suborbital launch activity and rocket testing, and planned operations target a bi-weekly orbital launch cadence beginning in 2028, serving small-to-medium satellite and national security missions.
Details and strategic partners at OILR — announcements to be made soon.
One coordinated front door replaces months of cold outreach — sites, incentives, and decision-makers from week one.
Regional intelligence and aligned partners mean every dollar of capital and every hire compounds.
Co-invested partners with local standing and government relationships de-risk decisions before they're made.
Global aerospace strategy meets deep Permian Basin business roots.
Aerospace and spaceport development strategist with decades of experience advising airports, spaceports, and governments worldwide — including the aerospace transformation of the Permian Basin. Oscar brings global industry networks, regulatory expertise, and hands-on program leadership.
Midland-based business and investment leader with deep roots in the Permian Basin's commercial, financial, and civic communities. Lourcey brings local standing, capital relationships, and the on-the-ground presence that turns plans into operating businesses.
If you are building, investing in, or relocating an aviation, aerospace, or space business, start the conversation with PAD — we welcome a confidential discussion of your joint venture.