About
We bought the smallest aircraft
and gave it the biggest continent.
A gyroplane is the most honest aircraft made. No cabin glass, no pressurisation, no jet-stream. It cruises at 175 km/h three hundred feet above the canopy and lands on a strip the length of a tennis court. For everywhere else it is a curiosity. For Africa it is the only thing that should ever have flown here.
Why a gyroplane
Low and slow is the only honest altitude.
Bush planes go too fast and too high. Helicopters scream. A gyroplane glides at the height of an acacia, quiet as a thermal, with a rotor that cannot stall. You see the herd before the herd sees you. You smell the river. You hear the rotor over the wind. That is the trip we sell.
Why a network
One ship can't cross five countries. A network can.
We hangar at Wonderboom (FAWB) for JNB arrivals and Lake Longmere (FALL) for KPI arrivals. Twenty-five minutes by Sprinter and Southern Africa opens in concentric circles — Kruger, the Delta, the Kalahari, Mozambique, Eswatini. Nine circuits. One contract. One invoice in EUR.
The conservation thesis
Buy a seat. Fund a park.
Verifiable, audited, real.
Every flight hour books a fixed conservation contribution to WeLoveParks.org — a registered NPC that channels the money to the ranger units, the anti-poaching K9 teams and the community boreholes inside the parks we fly over. The cheque is written before you board. It is on your invoice. You get an impact certificate after every circuit.
The stack
One product. Four specialists. Zero overlap.
Founder · Pilot
Nico van Heerden
Twenty years filming Africa from low altitude for Voetspore. The route map is his logbook.
SACAA AOC operator
FlyJetStream
Holds every flight. Owns the dispatch, the maintenance, the pilot rosters, the insurance.
Hospitality partner
Black Heron / Heron Africa
Owns the bookings, the lodges, the chefs, the Sprinter, the Cruiser, the linen — the entire ground story.
Launch OEM
ELA Aviación
Cuevas-built ELA-10 Eclipse and ELA-07 Cougar. Co-named circuits. Permanent African demo + service footprint.
Milestones
The road to AERO 2027.
Q1 2026
ELA-10 Eclipse arrives Cape Town. First positioning runs to Wonderboom.
Q2 2026
Founders Trip · Okavango, 16–20 May. First circuits open.
Q3 2026
Founders Round closes. Second airframe online.
Q1 2027
Hub 02 Lake Longmere expansion. Third airframe.
April 2027
AERO Friedrichshafen — public reveal of the MySky.africa fleet + circuits.
Ready to fly?
Memberships are by approval. Sixty Founders, Year One.