Fleet
Pick the aircraft for the strip.
Jets for distance. Dash 8s for load. The 1900D for short runways, the Caravan for rough ones. We fly and maintain all of them ourselves.
- Aircraft
- 34
- Types, from the Cessna 172 to the Embraer jet
- 9
- Dash 8s, the backbone of the fleet
- 14
- Embraer jets fitted as air ambulances
- 2
Our regional jets, and our air ambulances
Embraer ERJ-145
Fifty seats, one aisle, no middle seat.
- Seats
- 50 (37 in the ERJ-135)
- Range
- 2,000 nm (XR)
- Baggage
- 1,200 kg
The backbone of the fleet
Dash 8
Built in Canada for short runways. Found plenty in Africa.
- Seats
- 37–50
- In the fleet
- 14
- Cruise
- up to 289 kt
Nineteen seats for short runways and small crews
Beechcraft 1900D
Nineteen seats. And you can stand up.
- Seats
- 19
- Cabin height
- 1.80 m
- Pressurised
- Yes
Our bush-strip workhorse
Grand Caravan
It lands where the lodge is.
- Seats
- 12
- Engine
- 1 × PT6A-114A
- Range
- 900+ nm
Compare
| Embraer ERJ-145 | Dash 8 | Beechcraft 1900D | Grand Caravan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job | Long regional flights, air ambulance, wet lease | Humanitarian, UN, charter | Short runways, small crews, UN | Bush strips, safari, cadets' first line job |
| Seats | 37–50 | 37–50 | 19 | 12 |
| Engines | 2 × Rolls-Royce AE 3007 turbofan | 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100-series turboprop | 2 × PT6A-67D turboprop | 1 × PT6A-114A turboprop |
| Cruise | M0.78–0.80 | 265–289 kt | 280 kt | 184 kt |
| Range, full cabin | 1,550–2,000 nm | 924–1,125 nm | 382 nm | 907 nm on full fuel |
| Pressurised | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Lands on | Runways | Runways and prepared strips; gravel approval for the -300 | Paved and prepared strips | Gravel, grass, murram |
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