Stewart Island Flights

Stewart Island Flights is a small airline company from New Zealand that conducts scheduled flights on light aircraft between Invercargill and Stewart Island. The airline also operates charter services to several of the island’s beaches. In 2000, Southern Air was acquired by South East Air Ltd, which was founded by Raymond Hector and Bill Moffatt in 1993. Since then, South East Air Ltd has been the parent company and holder of the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) under which Stewart Island Flights and Invercargill Aircraft Maintenance operate. [1][2]

Stewart Island Flights
IATA ICAO Callsign
WK RKU Rakiura
Founded2000
Fleet size4
Destinations2
Parent companySouth East Air Ltd
HeadquartersInvercargill, New Zealand
Key peopleRaymond Hector (Director) Bill Moffatt (Director)
Websitestewartislandflights.co.nz
Flight to Stewart Island, Invercargill Airport

Services

Stewart Island Flights operates three flights a day between Invercargill Airport and Ryan's Creek Aerodrome on Stewart Island[3] with regular additional departures during the summer season (October to the end of April). Stewart Island Flights also arranges scenic flights around Stewart Island and the Southland Region.[4]

Other services of the company are flights to Mason Bay on the western side of Stewart Island, landing at four different locations on the bay: Duck Creek, Martin's Creek, Cavalier, and Kilbride. As well as servicing other beach landing sites such as Doughboy Bay, Little Hellfire Beach, West Ruggedy Beach, Sealers Bay (Codfish Island), and Smoky Beach.[4]

Until 2011, the parent company South East Air operated an IFR post run using a Piper PA-32 between Invercargill and Dunedin. As such, South East Air was one of only two companies in New Zealand that had the capability to fly a single-engine piston aircraft at night under IFR.

Fleet

As of May 2019 the Stewart Island Flights fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[5]

Stewart Island Flights fleet
Aircraft Total Orders Passengers
Britten Norman BN-2A-26 Islander 2 9
Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six 1 5
Cessna 185E Skywagon 1 5
Total 4

References
  1. Steve L (30 May 2010). "3rd Level New Zealand: NZ's Southern Most Airline: Part 4 - Stewart Island Flights". 3rdlvelnz.blogspot.com.au. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  2. "Southern Air (1997)". Airline History. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  3. "Timetable". Stewart Island Flights. stewartislandflights.co.nz. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  4. "Charter & Beach Flights". Stewart Island Flights. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  5. "Our Fleet". Stewart Island Flights. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
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