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AIRPORT
Feature!
Reaching for
the skies
by GREG GRAHAM
CAPTAIN
Aviation Beauport
AVIATION BEAUPORT within easy reach of The high quality service
Aviation Beauport’s aircraft. and facilities offered by
Aviation Beauport has been an integral part of the Aviation Beauport starts on
services provided at Jersey Airport since 1964. That The company’s more than the ground.
makes it one of the oldest privately-owned air charter 50 staff have many years
companies in the world. experience of providing an The private terminal
efficient, discrete service for building has been re-
It started fairly modestly ferrying people and cargo travellers who expect the designed in a retro 1940s
around Europe from a base in the main terminal best. This includes a much theme recreating the golden
building. But in 1996 the company, which is owned by used ambulance service for age of romantic Clipper
chairman Mike Bell and managing director Greg Graham, Islanders who need to be Class travel that Humphrey
moved to a very well equipped, custom-built £2.5m flown to specialist UK Bogart would feel
facility at Beauport House to the south of the airfield. hospitals. comfortable with.
That made it one of the finest Fixed Base Operations, not
only in the British Isles, but in the whole of Europe.
Part of the company’s activities involves looking after the
aircraft owned by many of the Island’s wealthy residents,
but they also own a variety of aircraft used by a wide
variety of people. The fleet includes two Citation Excel
XLS midsize business jets which provide a level of luxury
unobtainable with the standard light executive jet. Wide
reclining seats and plenty of room for providing fine food
and refreshments makes a trip in one of these aircraft a
stress-free and pleasurable experience. The huge external
hold also provides nearly double the capacity of most
charter aircraft, so the Citation Excel XLS is a flexible
workhorse for individuals and companies who have
business around Europe. The cost can even be attractive
compared to using scheduled airlines depending on the
number of passengers, the destination and the time the
passengers need to travel. About 2000 airports are
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