Johannesburg
Hangar 104C, Gate 15,
Lanseria International Airport,
Lanseria,
Johannesburg, 1748
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Ultimate Heliport
Midrand, 2090
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+27 11 312 0360
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Universal Air Evac Johannesburg
Hangar 104C, Gate 15,
Lanseria International Airport,
Lanseria,
Johannesburg, 1748
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+27 11 430 1777
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Johannesburg
Hangar 104C, Gate 15,
Lanseria International Airport,
Lanseria,
Johannesburg, 1748
Get Directions
+27 11 267 5000
Email NAC
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Johannesburg
Hangar 104C, Gate 15,
Lanseria International Airport,
Lanseria, 1748
Get Directions
+27 11 267 5000
[email protected]
Johannesburg
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+27 11 267 5000
[email protected]
Johannesburg
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+27 11 267 5000
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Johannesburg
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+27 11 267 5000
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Johannesburg
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Johannesburg
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+27 11 267 5422
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Midrand
Heli Training School: +27 (0)72 344 5889
Heli Charter Operations: +27 (0)83 680 0299
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+27 11 312 0360
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Rand Airport
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+27 11 345 2500
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Rand Airport
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+27 11 345 2500
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Cape Town
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+27 21 425 3868
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Department : Contracts
Location : Lanseria Airport
An exciting position has opened up in our CAMO department.
Please submit your CV for this position online via this link: Click here
Closing date for all applications to reach HR is 09th October 2024.
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NAC’s helicopter maintenance facility at Rand Airport undertakes complete factory authorised maintenance and overhaul services for Bell and Robinson helicopters positioning NAC to provide a full range of world class overhaul, repair and maintenance services.
National Airways Corporation (NAC) Rand airport facility is the only Bell Customer Service Facility (CSF) in Sub Saharan Africa and the only Rolls Royce Model 250 engine Authorised Maintenance Centre in Africa.
NAC’s technical training facility, a South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) and Transport Education Training Authority accredited Aviation Training Organisation (ATO) at Rand Airport.
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We specialise in global special mission contracts, operating and managing numerous air support assignments throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Australasia and the Far East.
NAC Flight Logistics is a wholly owned company that deals exclusively with aircraft leasing utilising NAC’s fleet of B1900D and E120ER aircraft.
Aircraft Maintenance provides domestic and away-from-base maintenance for the company’s operational aircraft wherever they are deployed around the world.
As the premier African based air ambulance operator, Universal Air Evac has completed thousands of air ambulance missions in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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We pride ourselves on offering our guests one-stop VIP travel solutions tailored to their individual requirements with the utmost attention to detail. From its base at Lanseria International Airport, the executive Charter business delivers bespoke air travel solutions in a personalised and safe environment.
NAC’s extensive modern aircraft fleet includes turboprop aircraft; light, mid-size, super-midsize and heavy corporate jets; as well as various airliners. Aircraft flight efficiency, flexibility and comfort are maximised, whether you charter for private or business travel.
Discovery Jets offer a complete turnkey solution for all our clients aircraft management needs to ensure the highest savings through the economies of scale, the highest levels of experience and thorough maintenance tracking and records keeping ensuring aircraft valuation.
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The Helicopter Operations division is based at the newly developed state-of-the-art “Ultimate Heliport” in Midrand, Johannesburg. This facility, designed from the ground up with helicopters in mind, boasts being the only heliport of international caliber in South Africa.
As industry leaders, NAC operates the largest fleet of helicopters on the African continent, specializing in executive corporate charters with helicopter support and operations throughout the region.
Once received in VIP fashion at our offices at the Ultimate Heliport in Midrand, you take off in style, departing along the N1 south towards the Buccleuch interchange.
Based at the V&A Waterfront, NAC Helicopters Cape Town is the market leader in coastal sightseeing helicopter tours. Our team offers personal, tailor-made helicopter charters for travellers, aviation enthusiasts and business executives.
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The company was incorporated on November 8, 1945, under the name “Aviation Corporation of Africa (Pty) Ltd”. However, it was not until May 1946, under the holding company Fisher and Simmons Ltd, that the fledgling company actually began its operations as a charter company. One of the company’s main objectives written into its Articles of Association was to “carry on all or any of the business of aeroplane and airship enterprises and aviators, carriers, transporters and conveyors of passengers, mails, parcels and goods, and all the departments and branches of such business.” From humble beginnings at Baragwanath airfield, the company had developed into a “private airline” with a fleet of 45 aircraft by 1965. Now named National Airways, the airline flew routes serving the High Commission Territories and the newer Republics to the north of South Africa. Its aircraft flew an average of one million air-miles a year out of Baragwanath alone, plus another million out of its other nine bases.
National Airways Corporation was based at Rand Airport throughout its formative years but, always with an eye to future expansion, the company was one of the first tenants of Lanseria Airport, outside Johannesburg, when it opened in August 1974. NAFCO originally purchased three hangars at the airfield to house some of its divisions. NAC’s “stamp of approval” on the new airport was cemented by one of its aircraft being the second aircraft to touch down there moments after the “official aircraft” had done so.
At about the same time, NAC spread its wings to the Eastern Cape with the appointment of Border Air Charters in East London as a Beechcraft sub-dealer, thus joining other NAC branches or dealers already established, or soon to be so, in Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban and Nelspruit.
In 1976, it became a subsidiary of the Lonmin (formerly Lonhro) Group. The company went through a few name changes and on 30 September 1991 the company’s name was changed to National Airways Corporation Pty Limited. In 1996 and following a demerger of Lonmin, ownership of NAFCO passed to a separate company, Lonhro Africa PLC and then, in 1999, it became a member of the Imperial Group of Companies. In 2012, the management team and a group led by Global Capital bought Imperial Holdings’ share in the business.
National Airways Corporation, following on from its roots as National Airlines, has a long history of running airlines. For many years it operated scheduled services from Johannesburg and Cape Town to the Northern Cape mines as Interstate Airlines, Johannesburg to Vilanculos in Mozambique as Rhodesian Air Services and Swazi Air, which was then a Swazi-based subsidiary of NAC operating from Johannesburg to Swaziland and Durban. Its first scheduled service, however, was a short one linking Bloemfontein with Kimberley.
After its foundation as a charter company and its expansion into aircraft maintenance, the company opened an aircraft sales division. Over the years it acquired distributorships for Gates Learjet, Aero Commander, Britten Norman, Mooney, Beagle, Navion, Aircoupe, Citabria, Maule and British Aerospace, all of which ended in 1968 when they were awarded the Beechcraft dealership by Olive-Ann Beech. Her condition was that they become an exclusive dealership, one which they proudly accepted and became one of the largest Beech dealerships in the world. It was 1974 when NAC made the first sale of the then brand-new Beechcraft Super King Air 200. When asked by a World Airnews reporter at the time what NAC estimated as the market potential for the type in South Africa would be, the answer was “Around 14”. This was perhaps NAC’s biggest understatement for within six months there were 16 in the country which were collectively flying 13000 hours a year and covering some 3,25-million miles. Today, the NAC team is not certain as to exactly how many King Airs have been sold in the region, but there are at least 130 currently on the register in South Africa and neighbouring states. Small wonder because the King Air now ranks as the biggest-selling turboprop business aircraft of all time. In fact, the manufacturer, the then Beechcraft Corporation, delivered its 2000th King Air 200 within four years after the type’s first flight. At the time of the Type Certificate having been awarded by the FAA, the King Air was claimed to have been the most thoroughly tested general aviation aircraft in US history. Another Beechcraft turboprop model which achieved great sales success for NAC was the 1900C and later the 1900D mini airliner. The first Beechcraft 1900C was sold by NAC to Namib Air (now Air Namibia), in Windhoek, in May 1987 to be followed shortly afterwards by two more for the airline. The Air Namib sale opened the flood gates and within the next ten years over 100 of both the “C” and larger “D” models had been sold, predominantly to airlines in various parts of the continent.
In 1980, NAC took over as the Bell Helicopter Independent Representative in 13 African countries and in 1981 added a Robinson dealership to its rapidly growing helicopter division. NAC is the only Bell Customer Service Facility on the African continent and also has the only Rolls-Royce Authorised Maintenance Centre on the continent, both based at Rand Airport.
Today, NAC’s helicopter operations business is substantial, headquartered out of the magnificent Ultimate Heliport in Midrand, but operating from bases all over Africa. It is the largest charter and HEMS operator in South Africa. NAC Helicopters Cape Town, based in the V&A Waterfront, is a leading tourism-based helicopter operation.
NAC ended its relationship with what had become Hawker Beechcraft in 2012 when Hawker Beechcraft entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the USA, cancelling the Support Plus program on the Hawker 4000 and Premier 1 business jets, of which NAC had sold many examples. NAC sided with its customers who had trusted them with the purchase of the aircraft, emboldening their commitment to “Customers for Life”.
The sale of corporate jets has also been a high priority at NAC, and it has been particularly successful in this sphere. Although NAC does not like boasting of its corporate aircraft sales successes, anyone with access to a copy of the South Africa aircraft register can see for themselves that it is certainly substantial. Having also enjoyed dealer relationships with Gulfstream, Socata, Diamond and Tecnam, today NAC represents Dassault, Kodiak and Piper in the region and has an extensive pre-owned sales business as well.
As sales volumes diminished and sales margins shrunk after the 911 tragedy and the 2008 global financial crisis, NAC turned its attention to more annuity-based income streams in its flight operations businesses. Today, the charter and international operations businesses are large, serving governments, corporates, individuals and the world’s largest humanitarian aid organisations such as the United Nations and The World Food Program, amongst many others. NAC’s jet air ambulance service, Universal Air Evac, is the largest on the African continent, servicing customers from all corners of the world.
NAC’s joint venture leasing business, Awesome Flight Logistics is a highly successful specialist dry leasing business, managed out of Perth, Australia. Other international divisions include Specialised Aircraft Services Inc. in Wichita, Kansas and NAC Malta.
In May 2021, NAC expanded its US interests with a 25% acquisition of Discovery Jets, the innovative and rapidly expanding on-demand charter company based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.