Tropic Air

Tropic Air is a privately-owned air charter company offering various personal, tailored, and task-specific professional helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft services across sub-Saharan Africa. It facilitates swift transportation of personnel and cargo under safe, standardized, and affordable conditions, providing aviation support services that suit customer needs.

The air charter company was established by Jamie Roberts, Founder and Managing Director of Tropic Air, to promote northern Kenya as a tourist destination. It has expanded and diversified its services to include extraordinary tourism, wildlife translocations, geo-survey tasks, cargo flights, aerial photography, and medical evacuations through a fleet of high-performance Cessna aircraft and helicopters.

“Our commitment to professionalism has helped us become Kenya’s leading air charter company for tourism and other vital expeditions essential to wildlife conservation and humans,” says Roberts.

Tourists and travelers yearn to explore beyond the superficial characteristics of a location, discover hidden gems, and experience its distinctive essence. Tropic Air is in pursuit of enabling that with its professional air charter services.

The air charter company leverages its extensive experience and familiarity with the spectacularly diverse and largely uninhabited land of sub-Saharan Africa to combine geographical wonders and nature for an unforgettable travel experience.

It facilitates a range of safaris and expeditions by helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft, which fly through rich and luscious jungles, erupting volcanoes, desert vistas, and extraordinary landscapes unique to the continent.

Tropic Air is bolstered by a team of skilled pilots with unparalleled experience in bush flying and highly specialized for the aviation services Tropic Air provides. This encourages Tropic Air to collaborate closely with multiple world-acclaimed professional photographers, award-winning aerial camera specialists, and producers, offering an excellent aerial filming platform for wildlife documentaries and feature films. It also gives auxiliary aerial utility support for expeditions like oil and gas exploration and seismic, geological, and geothermal missions where the extensive topographical knowledge of its pilots plays an instrumental role.

The proximity of Tropic Air’s location to important wildlife conservation zones makes it the ideal first point of contact for assistance with numerous wildlife-related tasks like anti-poaching support, darting and collaring, and the translocation of animals. It cooperates with local communities, conservation organizations, and government bodies to tenaciously safeguard wildlife and supports them to ensure natural ecosystems are protected and maintained for the conservation of all constituent species.

In addition to providing tourism and wildlife conservation services, Tropic Air provides essential human services. Its powerful helicopters are ideal for remote and inaccessible regions and have efficiently completed numerous medical evacuations and search and rescue missions throughout Kenya.

Tropic Air invests substantially in hiring the best pilots and engineers. It maintains a modern hangar facility that offers fixed-wing and helicopter services, including base and line maintenance, structural repairs, avionics, and exterior paint jobs. Its teams’ familiarity with more than 20 types of airplanes and helicopters enables it to extend reliable third-party maintenance while sustaining safety standards.

Tropic Air’s services are the ideal way to optimize safari time and perform task-specific expeditions without being constrained by distance and poor road infrastructure. Its comprehensive services and the adaptability of its helicopters and aircraft have propelled its customers to cost-effectively and efficiently actualize their aviation needs.