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Owner and Pilot: Jamie Roberts
Season: Open all year
Portfolio: Air charters, scenic helicopter and plane flights, air-rescue, conservation work, aerial photography, sling work and geological surveys.
Fleet: 2 Cessna Caravans, 12 passenger seats each
1 Cessna 206, 4 passenger seats
1 Cessna 182, 2 passenger seats
1 Waco bi-plane, 2 passenger seats
2 AS 350 B3 Eurocopter, 5 passenger seats each
1 EC 120 B Eurocopter, 4 passenger seats
Pilots: 7 pilots with more than 30,000 hrs flying experience
Tropic Air was started by Jamie Roberts in the mid 1990’s and is now a well-established charter company operating between lodges and camps within eastern, central and southern Africa. Tropic Air offers adventure travel in either fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter, giving you a bird’s eye view of a scenically spectacular continent. You can enjoy an early morning flight into the northern deserts and to Lake Turkana, or to the seldom visited forests of the Matthews Range, or a breath-taking flight around the 17,000ft peaks of Mt. Kenya, stopping off to cast for a rainbow trout in one of the glacier lakes. Tropic Air can fly you into the depths of the Ethiopian mountains, to the deserts of Namibia or the gorillas in Uganda. On a more personal level, Jamie can take 2 passengers on an exhilarating flight in the Waco, a bi-plane reminiscent of Denys Finch-Hatton’s early flying experiences in ‘Out of Africa’. In addition to his charter flying, Jamie contributes to conservation and mountain rescue.
