Cobham Aviation Services - Airline Information

Cobham Aviation Services Australia offers scheduled and charter flights, and once operated under the name National Jet Systems. A carrier based in Adelaide, its services include wet leasing and freight operations, as well as various flight activities it undertakes on behalf of larger clients like Qantas Airways (for which it is a major contractor), Australian Air Express, and Santos Ltd.

Cobham Aviation Services Australia was founded in 1989 by Cobham plc and launched its operations on July 1990. It initially established its scheduled flights to northern Australian tourist destinations on behalf of Australian Airlines. When Qantas Airways took over Australian Airlines, Cobahm was rebranded as a QantasLink carrier. Currently, it flies a fleet of 31 aircraft ferrying passengers to 24 destinations across Australia, including a number of domestic routes in its role as a QantasLink airline.

Cobham is frequently hired by mining and resource companies for its fly in/fly out services, particularly in the more remote areas of Australia. It flies from its main hub at the Adelaide International Airport, with secondary hubs at Cairns International Airport, Darwin International Airport and Perth Airport.

Cobham Aviation Services Australia boasts of developing, delivering and supporting advanced systems in aerospace and defense, as well as operating “turnkey” airport management and reservations services. As one of the country’s leading providers of contracted flights, freight, and other air ferry services to major civil and national organizations in Australasia, it flies with the motto, “Connecting and Protecting the Nation.”

Since 1994, it has served the Australian Government’s Border Protection Command by undertaking maritime air surveillance of the country’s borders, and it flies an estimated 2,500 maritime patrol missions of 15,000 hours each per year on its own fleet of 10 Bombardier Dash 8, specially modified for patrol and surveillance activities.

The airline likewise operates and maintains Tenix LADS Laser Airborne Depth Sounding aircraft for the purpose of deployment around the world.