Fireblade Aviation prepares to serve growing private aviation market

Private aviation company Fireblade Aviation spent three years laying the foundations for it to become a sustainable private aviation business, having been founded originally as a flight department for international mining major Anglo American. Schalk Burger has the story.

With the growth in international demand for aviation resources, particularly for private aviation resources, over the past three to four years, Fireblade has positioned itself to become a sustainable private aviation services business.

Demand is outstripping supply and creating challenges, but also plenty of opportunities for the company's aircraft owner services and air operator certificate division, its fixed-base operator division, and its maintenance, repair and overhaul division.

Fireblade Aviation MD Leigh Kretzschmar provides insight into the company's strategy.

This article originally appeared on Engineering News