National Jet Systems

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National Jet
IATA NC	ICAO NJS	Callsign NATIONAL JET
Founded		1989
Fleet size		1 Avro RJ-70ER 4 BAe 146-100 2 BAe 146-200 1 Bombardier Dash 8 DHC8-103 1 Bombardier Dash 8 DHC8-311 aircraft
Destinations
Headquarters		Adelaide Airport, South Australia, Australia
Key people
Website: http://www.nationaljet.com.au

National Jet is a charter airline based in Adelaide, Australia and is part of the Cobham Plc group in England. It operates scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger and cargo services. It also provides specialist contract aviation services to government and large civil organisations and wet leasing of aircraft and crew including to Qantas under QantasLink. National Jet is the leading provider of contracted aerial passenger and freight services to large civil and government organisations in Australasia. Employing over 800 people, National Jet, through its various contracts, flies to over 50 destinations throughout Australasia.

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Fleet 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] History

National Jet Systems was established in 1989 and started operations on 1 July 1990. It is owned 100% by Cobham Flight Operations and Services. Its main headquarters is at Adelaide Airport (ADL), with crew hubs at Darwin International Airport (DRW), Cairns International Airport (CNS), Perth International Airport (PER) and Adelaide International Airport (ADL).

[edit] Services

Scheduled services are operated to the following destinations:

• Domestic scheduled destinations for National Jet:
  • Perth
  • Murrin Murrin
  • Learmonth
  • Ravensthorpe
  • Telfer
  • Paraburdoo
  • Kalgoorlie
  • Barrow Island
  • Barimunya
  • Coondewanna
  • Brockman
  • Adelaide
  • Moomba

• International scheduled destinations for National Jet Systems:
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos Islands

• Domestic scheduled destinations for QantasLink:
  • Perth
  • Darwin
  • Alice Springs
  • Cairns
  • Karratha
  • Broome
  • Ayers Rock (Uluru)
  • Port Hedland
  • Gove (Nhulunbuy)
  • Paraburdoo
  • Kalgoorlie
  • Newman

[edit] Fleet

The National Jet Systems fleet includes the following aircraft (as of December 2006) ^[1] :

• 1 Avro RJ70
• 5 BAe 146-100
• 1 BAe 146-100QT
• 4 BAe 146-200
• 2 BAe 146-300QT
• 8 Boeing 717-200
• 5 Boeing 727-200F
• 1 Bombardier DHC-8 103

• National Jet Systems
  • 1 Avro RJ-70ER VH-NJT
  • 4 BAe 146-100
  • 2 BAe 146-200
  • 1 Bombardier Dash 8 DHC8-103 VH-JSJ

• QantasLink
  • 8 B717-200

• Surveillance Australia
  • 6 Bombardier Dash 8 Q200
  • 4 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300

[edit] See also

• Qantas
• Charter airline

[edit] External links

• National Jet Systems
• NJS Charter Perth
• Qantas
• Cobham
• Surveillance Australia

[edit] References

1. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006