Ag Aviation Air Tractor
Holding the sole distribution rights for Air Tractor® Aircraft in Africa, Ag Aviation Africa has a 40-year history of agricultural aviation experience and 60 years of General Aviation experience. During this time, Ag Aviation has developed an infrastructure and supplier network that allows the company to provide consultancy services, sales, after-sales support and operational assistance to large farms and Air Tractor operated companies.
Ag Aviation has become a value-added partner to farming companies across the continent. Some of the larger commercially operated farms run their own agricultural aviation operations and Ag Aviation is ideally positioned to support all aerial application management solutions.
Product focus
The Air Tractor® aircraft platform is the global leader in its class for:
• Agricultural Crop Spraying (aerial application of fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, growth regulators and seeding applications)
• Firefighting including forestry protection
• Airborne Geophysics in the mining and survey sectors
• Fuel hauling and oil spill disaster management
• Pest, vector, mosquito and locust control via the air.
Benefits of aerial application
Benefits include the speed of application (five seconds per hectare). The ability to work unabated whilst land-based machines cannot operate in wet soil, they compact the soil and often cause crop damage and the spreading of disease. Aerial applications provide greater chemical effectivity, more uniform spraying patterns, no dust problems, reduced effect of poor-quality water, variable rate technology and reduced input costs. Economical coverage, low costs of operations, aircraft are easy to maintain, aircraft are very manoeuvrable and can accurately hit the target areas.
Services and support
Ag Aviation Africa can send parts and maintenance technicians anywhere in Africa and we have the resources to provide assistance in long-term aircraft financing, provide outright aircraft purchase options and or leasing models.
Ag Aviation offers the following services in Africa:
• Agricultural aviation consultancy and turnkey solutions
• Air Tractor ® sales and after sales support
• Aircraft financing, leasing and insurance
• Aircraft maintenance support network
• Pilot and engineer training as well as placing of staff
• Parts distribution
• Project identification
• Civil aviation certification and importation processing
• Aerial imagery acquisition for yield studies