Our company was established by 2 fresh flight instructors from UK and Ireland with JAA and FAA commercial licenses. We wanted to apply our multi-national license authorities to something that really needs it. So, in 2006 we started taking on requests from our friends and aquaintances to ferry GA aircrafts from the US to EU. Since we were very familiar with both types of airspaces and already had a coudple of thousands of flight hours behind our backs, aircarft deliveries worked out just fine: safe, economical and on time. So, we decided to let a few more pilots from diverse backgrounds to join us and started streamlining our deliveries by managing better routes, simple price estimation and faster flight-plannig.
We were first registered in the UK under "Global Air Ferry Ltd".
Bcause we started operating in 2006, you may say we are a "new kid on the block". But since 2006, we managed to impress our customers, partners, competitors and even international media by displaying a smooth and unique operation. Several articles were written about our company, includine "Chicago Tribune" article by Leanne Gusscup about ferry pilots and even a Discovery Channell documentary is in the making, featuring pilots from our company.
How did we end up in Russian Federation ?
Decision to de-register our company in the UK and re-register our company in Russia came as an opportunity, when a bigger aviation sales company "Sovrasko/Firstavia Group LLC" from St.Petersburg approached us with a long-term US-Russia aurcraft delivery contract for their sales operation. After meeting these lovely fellas in Moscow, we decided that we could really work together and merged in 2008.
At the moment, 95% of our pilots are from the US and Western Europe. But the corporate management is from St.Petersburg, Russia. We are thrilled to work as a part of Firstavia Group and love being "under a big brother's wing". |