Stewart Island Flights is a small airline company from

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that offers scheduled flights on

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between

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and Stewart Island. This airline company also operates charter services to several of the island’s beaches. In 2000 Southern Air (est.1997) 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

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(AOC) under which Stewart Island Flights and Invercargill Aircraft

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operate.

Services

Stewart Island Flights operates three flights a day between

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and Ryan's Creek Aerodrome on Stewart Island with regularly 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. 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. 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 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:

References

External links

Stewart Island Flights
{{Airlines of New Zealand Airlines of New Zealand Stewart Island Foveaux Strait Airlines established in 2000 New Zealand companies established in 2000